From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: newbie: please don't smash my case Date: 2000/07/07 Message-ID: <3171974897841999@naggum.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 643536239 References: mail-copies-to: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 962990161 23047 195.0.192.66 (7 Jul 2000 17:16:01 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 8800 8879; fax: +47 8800 8601; http://naggum.no; http://naggum.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Jul 2000 17:16:01 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * Simon Brooke | Errr... this needs a bit of expansion. Symbols in Common LISP are | case-insensitive. Common LISP is the most prevelent LISP in use these | days, but that doesn't make it the only one. Symbols in InterLISP and | Portable Standard LISP, for example, are case sensitive. Wrong. Stop confusing the reader with the symbol! | Like the separation of function and value cells, it's a feature of | Common LISP we're stuck with now, but which I don't think anyone any | longer seriously defends. What!? Are you saying that YOU THINK the existence of function and value cells in symbols is as stupid as upper-case symbol names? If so, are you insane, trolling, stupid, or another Scheme bigot? #:Erik -- If this is not what you expected, please alter your expectations.