Subject: Case-sensitivity goals, policy and implementation
From: Andreas Eder
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:13:08 +0200
Richard Fateman writes:
> The controversy and various approaches
> has been pounded to death by the people at
> Franz Inc, some of whom feel strongly that the ANSI
> CL decision was wrong (case insensitive), but
> that it must be accomodated somehow.
'm not an expert on Common Lisp and far from a language lawyer, but I
think that ANSI CL is +not+ case insensitive, but is in fact case
+sensitive+. It is just that the default for the reader is to upcase
input, but you can change this either programmatically or ad hoc, just
as you please.
Andreas
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