On Feb 23, Guillermo J. Rozas wrote:
> >> As I said, you are using the wrong tool.
> >>
> >> It's not the way that I would do it or have done it.
> >
> > Please demonstrate how you would do that, in a way that always
> > works (reliably = no code auto-changing), and automatically.
>
> I already outlined it. Please re-read prior messages.
No you didn't; and I did re-read prior messages, again. There was a
"Why aren't you using strings?" question, and there was a vague
mention of "generators" which "report any collisions".
If there's any shred of utility in this thread, then this is it. I
*would* like to know -- in concrete terms -- how to face foreign-code
from a case insensitive language. One of the scenarios I outlined is:
* Write an interface to a library that has "foo" "Bar"
* ... which a year later gets extended by a "FOO"
You suggest "generators" -- you didn't specify what they do, are they
macros or some code-genarating preprocessors, and most importantly,
how will such a collision be reported, and how does it get fixed.
> >> Where's the analysis of the methodology?
> >
> > (The methodology was, BTW, to ask a question on a mailing list
> > that had many people who cared about the future of Scheme.)
>
> But you generalized it to 'most users'.
Yes, I should have added an obligatory ([*] based on a self-selected
sample of Scheme users who chose to participate in the r6rs mailing
list.)
> Clearly at most a minority of users cares about the future of
> Scheme. And of that minority, clearly an even smaller minority is
> on any given mailing list and paying attention at any given time.
Of course -- but that is *not* bias -- if it *is*, then everything
related to this mailing list (like the whole r6rs proces, and the new
sc elections) is also biased (and in a very concrete sense, it's the
same people).
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http://www.barzilay.org/ Maze is Life!
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