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Re: Case-sensitivity.


Aleksey Demakov <avd@gcom.ru> writes:

> Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de> writes:
> 
> > Who was responsible for the status quo w.r.t case sensitivity? 
> > Stallman or Lord?
> 
> I believe, that's Aubrey Jaffer, the author of SCM from which guile
> had been derived. SCM still is case-sensitive as well as many other
> scheme implementations. The case sensitivity issue is such that
> people can't agree upon even having a standard.

SCM READ is definitely not case-sensitive, nor has it ever been, as
far as I know.  There *is* as standard, IEEE P1178, which mandates
that READ smash case for symbols.  The R*NS do as well.