Shiro Kawai wrote: > > Anyways, I frequently implement DSLs on top of Scheme, and some > of such DSLs 'compiles' into case-sensitive languages. Writing > case-sensitive symbols with escaped notation clutters the code > horribly and decreases the value of DSLs significantly. Thus > I welcomed R6RS's choice of case sensitivity. > Amen. SXML (Scheme onto case-sensitive XML), scsh (Scheme onto case-sensitive filesystems), and any number of FFIs (Scheme onto case-sensitive identifiers in other languages) are all much less pleasant with case-insensitive readers.
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