[r6rs-discuss] JAR statement

[Thomas Lord]

The more serious case, perhaps, is that 
case sensitivity is far, far *simpler* both
technically and politically.

Is the issue all that important, beyond that 
consideration?

-t




On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 18:24 -0800, Arthur A. Gleckler wrote:
> > Point being: who cares?  R6 has that bit about right
> > in the sense where "right" means Reasonable.  Or
> > where "Right" means reasonable.  Or where "right"
> > means Reasonable.
> >
> > Or Some Such.
> >
> > For emphasis.
> 
> I care because case insensitivity is something that Scheme has had for
> a long time, and because of the confusion that case sensitivity
> causes, especially when one is trying to discuss a program out loud.
> I've lived in the case-sensitive Java world for several years, where
> it's a pain to have a conversation about lines like this:
> 
>   Type type = new Type();
> 
> I don't want that to happen to Scheme.  And I don't want that to
> happen to the many students who learn programming through Scheme.
> Case is just not an interesting thing for people to have to pay
> attention to in a programming language.