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- From: katz@quilty.stanford.EDU (Morry Katz)
- Subject: Case sensitivity
- Message-ID: <9211061751.AA00567@quilty.Stanford.EDU>
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 17:51:34 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:22:41 -0500
- From: Ozan Yigit <oz@sis.yorku.ca>
-
-
- > I suggest that you attend one of the Scheme Report meetings and
- > observe the techincal discussions that take place at the forum before
- > you impune our willingness to apply sreious study to the issues.
-
- I will be there next time around, time and money permitting [and of
- course, guests permitting, as I stand a good chance of being declared
- a persona-non-grata by then. :-)] . In any case, I took Steele's
- commentary to be applicable to many of the current languages in
- general, and I responded in general. Based on my reading [or skimming]
- of most every scrap of published material on scheme [see my biblio],
- I happen to think that Scheme may be quite unique in its development
- with respect to people carefully studying various semantic issues.
- But, even in Scheme, can the same be said of issues of syntax? If so,
- maybe I am missing something, and feel free to correct me. If not, why
- not? If issues such as case sensitivity matter, why not study them
- properly?
-
- Syntax issues have been discussed in the past. In particular, there
- have been long and heated discussions about naming of functions.
- Until now noone seemed to feel very strongly about case. I suspect
- that this issue will be raised and discussed at R6RS.
-
- ... When individual
- > fundamentally disagree on a point, it often is the case that this
- > results from a fundamental difference in perspective that cannot be
- > changed by pointing to any set of "facts" that their position
- > contradicts.
-
- I am well aware that some people will close their eyes, grit their teeth
- and ignore any set of "facts". I just want to know what those facts are,
- if they exist at all.
-
- You missed my point (or maybe I stated it poorly). In many cases
- there are no incontroverible facts. More precisely, what are stated
- as facts are actually a combination of fact and interpretation of
- those facts. Two individuals with very different interpretations and
- goals may never be able to come to the same comclusion, even in the
- absence of pure religion.
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- Morry Katz
- Rockwell Science Center
- administrator@rpal.rockwell.com (machine administration issues)
- katz@rpal.rockwell.com (other)
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