[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] please make square brackets more useful

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From: William D Clinger <will>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:25:01 -0400

Joe Marshall wrote:
> I find it immensely amusing that people can argue against case-folding
> of identifiers, but argue for grouping-folding of parens and brackets.

It says something interesting about the human condition.

> If `X' and 'x' are to be distinguished simply because of the relative
> size of their glyphs, then surely '(' and '[' ought to be.

+1

Will
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