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Someone pointed out that Common Lisp is case-insensitive by default, so really they have no grounds to object to the name LISP. ;-)
by waterhouse 12y ago
Someone pointed out that Common Lisp is case-insensitive by default, so really they have no grounds to object to the name LISP. ;-)
- na85 12y agoEnglish is the relevant rule set here, not Lisp :)
- Adlai 12y agoThe CL reader by default[1] converts unescaped characters to uppercase, but only when parsing tokens. The CL printer by default[2] converts everything it prints to lowercase. CL people seem to adopt these conventions as well, although they have been known to :capitalize Lisp on occasion. [1] http://l1sp.org/cl/2.2 http://l1sp.org/cl/2.2 [2] http://l1sp.org/cl/*print-case* http://l1sp.org/cl/*print-case*
- lispm 12y agoCL-USER 30 > (eq '|LISP| '|Lisp|) NIL Common Lisp knows very well the difference between LISP and Lisp