Raffael Cavallaro  <raffaelcavallaro@gmail.com> wrote:
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| t...@sevak.isi.edu (Thomas A. Russ) wrote:
| > It really doesn't make a lot of sense to support foo-bar Foo-Bar and
| > Foo-bar as three different symbols. �Most non-programmers don't really
| > consider them different.
| >
| > So the symbol behavior should be case-preserving AND case-insensitive.
| 
| I agree, but you'd be surprised how many programmers *want* case
| sensitive symbol comparison. Qi has case sensitive symbol comparison
| for example. Go figure.
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For me, case-sensitive symbol comparison mainly arises when
reading/writing data formats originating outside the Common Lisp
context that are themselves case-sensitive, e.g., EDIF design
files (such as produced by the OrCAD schematic capture program),
which are basically just case-sensitive s-exprs that use CamelCase
symbols [*megabytes* of them!!]. For this application, READTABLE-CASE
:INVERT works very well, since mainly you just need read/write invariance.


-Rob

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