Ray Dillinger scripsit: > But it would, undeniably, have been more complex to implement,
Indeed. > and although most people rejected a locale-sensitive semantics > out of hand, no one wanted to bless a single locale as being > "the code locale" for Scheme. There was widespread lack of > agreement that a default or "code locale" could be a > politically neutral choice, since no single choice could > conform to the case expectations of users of many different > human languages. As it turns out, some people may think accents on caps are unaesthetic, but nobody calls them wrong; indeed, all known languages with orthographic standards actually *require* them, though not everyone obeys the requirement.. Consequently, the non-localized case folding Just Works for everyone except Turkish and Azeri speakers. -- John Cowan [email protected] http://ccil.org/~cowan Big as a house, much bigger than a house, it looked to [Sam], a grey-clad moving hill. Fear and wonder, maybe, enlarged him in the hobbit's eyes, but the Mumak of Harad was indeed a beast of vast bulk, and the like of him does not walk now in Middle-earth; his kin that live still in latter days are but memories of his girth and his majesty. --"Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit" _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
