From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Upper/Lower Case Question Date: 1995/04/22 Message-ID: <19950422T211047Z.enag@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 101233896 references: <19950414T181207Z.enag@naggum.no> organization: Naggum Software; +47 2295 0313 newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp [Simon Brooke] | H'mmm ... this is a trick I haven't seen before, and could make CL a | damn sight more tolerable (I *hate* a language which only knows how to | shout). Before I start madly into it, what are the disadvantages and | gotchas of using this as a standard working mode? :invert has its dangers. any use of uppercase letters will turn them into lowercase letters in the symbol names, and you may not want that, but perhaps :downcase will work as you want. I bind *print-case* to :downcase, and find this very convenient. # -- sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from irony