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Re: Case-sensitivity.


Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com> writes:

> Well, we certainly knew why we chose case-sensitivity.  The
> key to note is that the current Guile core developers/maintainers
> were not actively involved in Guile when the Guile project started.
> There has been a 100% turn-over.

(Not quite true. :)

 Gary and me were actively involved *before* the project started.
 We followed SCM into Guile.

 But it is correct that the original choice was a conscious decision
 by Stallman or Tom Lord to differ with RnRS.  It was also decided
 that the empty list should be regarded as boolean false.  When Jim
 came we could change that.)