On Feb 21, Guillermo J. Rozas wrote:
> 
> It _is_ an arbitrary choice, and Scheme, like many Lisp dialects,
> had traditionally been case insensitive. R6RS decided to be
> gratuitously incompatible.

"These days" case-insensitive Lisp dialects are gratuitously
incompatible with most of the rest of the world.  (And IMO the
argument of "Lisp existed before Unicode, and will exist after it" is
a poor one.)

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          ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x)))          Eli Barzilay:
                  http://www.barzilay.org/                 Maze is Life!

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