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Re: Case sensitivity: a difference between Scheme and R5RS.



> jon seymour writes:
>  > Hi there. Is there a good reason why guile differs from R5RS with
>  > respect to case-sensitivity?
>  
> This is for facilitating porting of C or emacs lisp code to guile.
> There's a way to switch it off, vaguely described in the guile-ref pages.

Actually, I think we should handle Emacs Lisp with a completely
different reader.  Emacs Lisp has a different syntax in many ways, not
limited to case sensitivity.

One of our goals is to allow Guile to mix and match code written in
different languages; in order to do this right, Guile will need
something more sophisticated that a bunch of global flags controlling
the behavior of the reader.  A syntax should be associated (somehow)
with a particular file or a REPL, and not just applied
indiscriminately.