On Feb 21, 2009, at 1:24 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > 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.)
Really? The Windows and MacIntosh file systems are case insensitive. That's a gratuituous incompatibility? And why do you think they are that way? And don't tell me that they don't support Unicode or internationalization... The universe of programmers is far smaller than the universe of computer users, and computer users (except for ordinary Unix ones, which tends to be a subset of the universe of programmers) would scream if they ever had to deal with case sensitivity. _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
