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[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.