[r6rs-discuss] Proposed features for small Scheme, part 4B: case-sensitivity

[Peter Bex]

On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 09:19:14PM -0700, Brian Harvey wrote:
> > For example, what will you suggest a natural interface to
> > import Xlib?  It defines symbols like XK_A and XK_a,
> 
> This is a strong argument, that definitely made me think hard about my
> position; interfacing with That Language code does seem to require some
> degree of following its rules.
> 
> But I think the issues are more general than case-folding.  What if some
> C library exports the symbol car?  Is a Scheme program that interfaces
> with that library going to forgo using lists?

With a module system, the library could export 'car', and another library
could import the C library with either a prefix or simply omit 'car' from
the set of imported bindings.  I see no problem here.

> So I'm afraid that the FFI library is going to end up using strings to
> represent the foreign symbols anyway.

I don't see why that is necessary.

Cheers,
Peter
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