assigning operators - case sensitivity problem?

• Subject: assigning operators - case sensitivity problem?
• From: Raymond Toy
• Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 10:18:36 -0400

>>>>> "James" == James Amundson  writes:

    James> 1.  (*) text/plain          ( ) text/html           
    James> On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 21:28, C Y wrote:
    >> P.S. - are we adding checks for upper/lower case behavior to the test
    >> suite, or is that not needed?  Might come in handy if porting to a new
    >> lisp with odd behavior or some such, but other than that would we ever
    >> expect the bug to reappear?

    James> Honestly, I'm not sure which checks we could add. Most of the recent
    James> case-sensitity-related bugs regard what the user sees. They would be
    James> difficult to test for. I don't anticipate any particular porting issues.

But the matchfix issue can be tested and are because the input (in the
testsuite) says matchfix("ou") so the input had better be "ou" instead
of "OU".

Ray

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