Subject: Re: What case problem is Franz trying to solve?
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: 2000/11/10
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3182877325118372@naggum.net>

* Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net>
| This seems like something you would have had to address in your "modern"
| Lisp configurations.  Have you?  Or is this the breakage that Erik is
| fuming about?

  Well, I'm "fuming about" another breakage, that the support for case
  insensitivity via readtable-case was broken to get base sensitivity by
  default, but yes, this is another breakage that has "bad engineering"
  written all over it.  That you can't refer to symbols with their
  standard upper-case names if you run in a "Modern" Lisp is a serious
  problem.  Now, there are absolutely no problems combinging the two
  "modes" -- just like case sensitivity and insensitivity can co-exist
  in the same image.  _Something_ caused Franz Inc not to pursue that
  venue and I'm not sympathetic to what I'm beginning to understand that
  that "something" is: _no_ interest in or commitment to make extensions
  within the standard framework when at all possible, but instead taking
  an easy way out that does not require implementing the standard fully.

#:Erik
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