[R6RS] a typo and some lexical issues
Anton van Straaten
anton at appsolutions.com
Fri Sep 1 05:08:42 EDT 2006
Michael Sperber wrote:
> Anton van Straaten <anton at appsolutions.com> writes:
>
>
>>Michael Sperber wrote:
>>
>>>#VU8(...)
>>>#Vu8(...)
>>>#vU8(...)
>>>
>>>?
>>>
>>>My gut feeling is no, but I'm unsure what the rationale for that would
>>>be.
>>
>>Since Scheme is now case-sensitive, supporting alternate cases on some
>>things doesn't make much sense.
>
>
> Does that imply the analogous position on the other cases Will listed?
Hmm. All things being equal, I think lowercase everywhere for things
like this would make sense. However, I could see exceptions being made
in some cases, for historical/backward compatibility reasons. For
example, allowing #T, #F, and e.g. 1E3 could make sense. But I don't
have any principled rationale for deciding that. Perhaps make it all
lowercase and wait for the squeals of protest?
Anton
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