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That’s just the default. You can always put (setf *print-case* :downcase) in your .sbclrc (or whatever the equivalent is for your implementation) and nev
by rauhl 8y ago
That’s just the default. You can always put
(setf *print-case* :downcase)
in your .sbclrc (or whatever the equivalent is for your implementation) and never have to see all-caps again.
And yeah, the default upcasing is ugly and inelegant, but they were trying to support the caps-only machines & code still in use at the time. It’s one of the key things I’d change in a modern Lisp standard.
But you have to admit: when the default print-case is one of the worst things in a language, that language is doing pretty well.
- Tcepsa 8y agoTIL! Thanks for pointing this out; it makes me feel much better than my previous assumption that all these people running around proclaiming the greatness of CL were just _okay_ with the allcaps!