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Re: Case-sensitivity.



[Jim is catching up on old mail, and hopefully not starting a new flame.]

Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de> writes:
> Who was responsible for the status quo w.r.t case sensitivity? 
> Stallman or Lord?

Mostly Tom Lord, I think.  There was some misbegotten attempt to
produce a syntax which was the union of both Emacs Lisp and
Scheme... ugh.

> I assumed that at least the guile core team knew r4rs by heart and
> would know why they break with r4rs in certain points.
> Alas that seems not to be quite the case ...

Harrumph.  I have the more interesting parts memorized... :(
:)  As I say, the decision predates me, and I just plum forgot about
it.

I think code generators should be responsible for warning the user
when conflicts occur.  If they're targetting Scheme systems other than
Guile, they'll probably do this anyway.