Andy Wingo <[email protected]> writes:
> On Thu 12 Jan 2012 17:11, Bake Timmons <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> The GNU coding standards advise sticking with proper case for
>> identifiers, even if the identifier starts with a lowercase letter and
>> appears at the beginning of a sentence.
>>
>> The Guile manual seems to follow this convention, with the exception of
>> r5rs.texi, hence the attached patch.
>
> Applied, thanks. Note that as R5RS is a historical document, we
> probably won't be accepting textual changes to this file, though you
> probably knew that already.
Note that according to the R5RS, identifiers are not case sensitive, so
e.g. 'Let*' is no less correct than 'let*'. In that context, it does
not make sense to say "the identifier starts with a lowercase letter".
Also, as Andy notes, it is an historical document.
I would advocate reverting this patch.
Thanks,
Mark
