[r6rs-discuss] R5RS is not a baseline

[John Cowan]

Grant Rettke scripsit:

> In popular case-sensitive languages today like Java and C#, the
> majority of programmers make a point never to use case alone to
> distinguish between variables due to the obvious errors that doing so
> often introduce. 

Say what?

Do you have actual evidence of this?

Using an UpperCamelCase name for a type and the same lowerCamelCase name
for a variable of that type, where there is only one such variable in
a given context, is *extremely* common practice.

If capital letters are used only to mark word boundaries, the chances
that two names will differ in case accidentally *other* than at the
first character is pretty low.

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