[r6rs-discuss] straw poll: case sensitivity

Eli Barzilay eli at barzilay.org
Wed Nov 22 18:38:10 EST 2006


On Nov 23, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> [I am *not* speaking for the R6RS editors!]
> 
> At Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:38:50 +0100, Michael Sperber wrote:
> > - A majority of the community would like to see case sensitivity.
> >   There's anecdotal, but no empirical evidence to that effect.
> 
> There was a straw poll on the PLT Scheme mailing list before
> switching to case sensitivity as the default, and there was a straw
> poll at the Scheme workshop in 2004. I'm curious enough to run one
> more poll.
> [...]

To simplify things, I've made a cgi interface for this (which simply
sends a proper message to Matthew) at:

  http://tmp.barzilay.org/case.cgi

I'll post that on c.l.l.


Also, I added an option for:

On Nov 22, Chris Hanson wrote:
> 
> None of the above.  As I have been saying, I prefer selectable case
> sensitivity with an implementation-defined default.

which will be sent to Matthew as an 'im vote.


(I'm not doing this with Matthew, my script is just an organized way
to mail him.  Disclaimers inherited.)

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