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On upcasing: (setf *print-case* :downcase)

• rauhl 7y ago
  Oh definitely — that is a must! But it doesn’t do you any good if e.g. you want to turn read symbols into shell commands. You can play some games with :invert, but at the end of the day it’s a hack. I don’t blame them for upcasing back in the 90s, but … it’s not the 90s anymore.
• rurban 7y ago
  Not downcase, modern. I.e case-preserving and case-sensitive. E.g. to be able to define native ffi calls into CamelCase functions. Downcasing is destroying information, Modern is keeping the original symbol names