[r6rs-discuss] Case sensitivity

[John Cowan]

Brian Harvey scripsit:

> Okay, wait, now I'm really confused.  If we already have a notion of
> "letter identity" that works for sorting and is already customized for
> all those languages, why isn't it good enough for case-folding too?

Case-folding is a much simpler situation than sorting/searching (you
need to use the same algorithm for both).  It's not minimally simple,
but it's simple.

Nor does it really make sense to have localized rules for the syntax
of programming languages.

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