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- From: kobler@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Daniel Kobler)
- Subject: case sensitivity
- Sender: news@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (USENET Newssystem)
- Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, Technische Univ. Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 06:23:57 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.062357.8865@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- hi,
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- when I asked about the WHY of 'Wall being different from 'WALL a
- couple of weeks ago I didn't expect to rise a discussion like this.
-
- Well I know I'm talking about a religious issue, but ...
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- 'Wall is claimed to be the same as 'WALL,
-
- whereas
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- (string->symbol "Wall") and (string->symbol "WALL") are different.
-
- And again my question: why these differences? Wouldn't it be better to
- do it the one OR the other way, i.e. allow symbols with upper/lower
- case letters or strictly converting all letters inside symbol names to
- the case preferred by the respective implementation?
-
- -Daniel ][
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- Daniel Kobler kobler@kiss.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
- TU Muenchen, Arcisstr.21, "Once upon a time I had a good girl,
- 8000 Muenchen 2, Germany once upon a girl I had a good time."
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