"Robert P. Goldman" <[email protected]> writes: > Faré wrote: >> Should non-lowercase strings be either forbidden or case-converted? >> That's a backward incompatible change that would need to be tested >> with cl-test-grid before it's committed — and even then might affect >> unpublished or proprietary code by other users. > > I think there's a strong incentive to make such a backward-incompatible > change right now:
It would break Quicklisp. > such systems are *already* broken in at least one > sense -- they cannot be used correctly with logical pathnames, Not true. A logical pathname can map to any physical pathname. > nor can they be referred to by symbols. They are already referred to by symbols whenever someone does (asdf:load-system :foo). Zach
