Re: Case-sensitivity goals, policy and implementation

On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 09:27, ole.rohne@cern.ch wrote:
> Raymond> Look, there's the readtable-case implementation of :invert
> Raymond> for gcl!  All gcl needs now is the logic to do the right
> Raymond> thing for :invert and print-case :upcase.  :-)
> 
> I understand that your preference is towards using the system-supplied
> readtable-case. I'd like to point out that we will not be able to
> implement (over-)smart case-coercion, eg upcase a symbol name only if
> that will match an existing symbol. This could be considered a benefit:-)

It is most definitely a benefit. We already have exactly that sort of
"smart" case coercion. It is a disaster. There will be no more smart
case coercion.

--Jim