[r6rs-discuss] JAR statement

Marc Feeley feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Fri Feb 20 21:31:35 EST 2009


On 20-Feb-09, at 9:24 PM, Arthur A. Gleckler wrote:

>  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.

BTW, I really like your argument.  I did vote for case sensitivity,  
but perhaps it would have been sufficient to have a standard external  
syntax for case sensitive symbols, such as |ThisLooksLikeJava|.

Marc




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