Masinter's proposal on case

[Scott E. Fahlman <Fahlman at Cmu-20c>]

If we were to make Common Lisp case-sensitive, Masinter's proposal to
require every symbol in the white and yellow pages to be lower-case
would be essential to retaining everyone's sanity, but I oppose the
basic suggestion.  We might be able to defend the case-purity of the
white and yellow pages, but under this proposal there would still be a
lot of code written in mixed case, and users would still have the problem
of remembering the case of everything.  I see two cutlures developing
very quickly, one of which types in lower-case only and the other
capitalizing assorted words, as in ThisIsaReallyUglySymbol.  It still
looks like a recipe for chaos to me.

-- Scott