Re: Case-sensitivity goals, policy and implementation



Jim> Because Lisp would do all that for us automatically. What you are
Jim> proposing is to manually re-implement the effects of
Jim> readtable-case :invert in the maxima code. Why bother?

Does the maxima reader/parser acutally and consistently use the lisp
reader? Or does it rather do things like

(find-symbol (concatenate 'string "$" (string-upcase input)) :maxima)

Ole