Mitchell Wand scripsit: > Has case-sensitivity become a metaphor for some aspect of the future > direction of Scheme?
Indeed. It shows what is to my mind the deepest cleavage in the community, between the party of innovation and the party of arrested innovation. (I forget who first used these terms: I saw them some forty years ago in a paper on academic politics.) > Can we get back to the main subject, please? The Church of England once had an acrimonious controversy on the proper orientation of the communion table: should the long axis of the table be aligned with the long axis of the church, or perpendicular to it? Hardly a significant issue -- on the surface. But what it really meant was: Should the C. of E. be a fundamentally Protestant institution, or should it allow Catholic (but non-Roman) influences as well? A very important matter, given that the church was founded by a king to facilitate his non-Roman divorce, but had become completely Protestantized within a century. -- A poetical purist named Cowan [that's me: [email protected]] Once put the rest of us dowan. [on xml-dev] "Your verse would be sweeter http://www.ccil.org/~cowan If it only had metre And rhymes that didn't force me to frowan." [overpacked line!] --Michael Kay _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
