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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.