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Non-yucky package names (I think)
- To: David A. Moon <Moon%SCRC-TENEX@su-ai>
- Subject: Non-yucky package names (I think)
- From: Scott E. Fahlman <Fahlman@CMU-CS-C>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jun 1983 04:51:00 -0000
- Cc: Common-Lisp@su-ai
- In-reply-to: Msg of 2 Jun 1983 00:19-EDT from David A. Moon <Moon at SCRC-TENEX>
Well, the big advantage of my package-name proposal was that it doesn't
create yet another set of case rules. All that the user has to remember
is that package names are treated EXACTLY like symbols with regard to
case and escape conventions. Both your proposals -- forbidding
veritical bars and doing case-insensitive lookup -- have some merit, but
violate this uniformity. I would prefer not to diverge in this way.
-- Scott