Subject: Case-sensitivity goals, policy and implementation
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:22:48 -0400
>>>>> "James" == James Amundson <amundson@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>> Actually I do care. Then I don't have to quote stuff in Lisp for the
>> most common usages. No more |$%o42| to see what the output form
>> is. Hurray!
James> Yes, that would be great. I won't declare victory until I see the
James> implementation, though. I spent a little bit of time last night trying
James> to figure out where to stick the readtable-changing statements in the
James> maxima source, but I quickly became confused. If you feel like giving it
James> a shot, please do.
I'll try. I've never played with the reader before so it may take
some time.
James> I also want to make sure that we don't somehow set ourselves up for
James> problems incorporating 3rd party lisp code in the future. I don't think
James> there should be a problem, but I want to make sure I haven't missed
James> something.
I don't see how that can be a problem, unless it's writting in
non-ANSI CL.
Ray