Re: case sensitivity

[Jonathan Bachrach <jrb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 21:23:16 -0500
From: Christopher Armstrong <radix@twistedmatrix.com>
To: googoogaga@ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: case sensitivity
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On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 06:37:55PM -0500, Jonathan Bachrach wrote:
> jm <janmar@iprimus.com.au> writes:
>
> > this problem popped up when swigifying the SDL
> > which has a function named SDL_Quit and an
> > enum constant named SDL_QUIT.
> > a work around in this case is simple enough,
> > but there is potential for much bigger headaches
> > with other interfaces.
> 
> i'll consider this.
> 
> anybody else have opinions on this?

Well, I prefer case-sensitivity. Not for any serious reasons, other
than sometimes I need mixed-case symbols, which can probably be
created regardless of default-case-insensitivity; but that doesn't
help when I want some API that allows people to pass a mix-cased
symbol in (They would have to use strings or set up the
case-sensitivity themselves, right?)

I'm sure a lot of lispers think that's a bad idea anyway, though. But
whatever. :)

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