Hi, Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis:
> Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes: > >> On Thu 12 Jan 2012 17:11, Bake Timmons <b3timm...@speedymail.org> writes: >> >>> The GNU coding standards advise sticking with proper case for >>> identifiers, even if the identifier starts with a lowercase letter and >>> appears at the beginning of a sentence. >>> >>> The Guile manual seems to follow this convention, with the exception of >>> r5rs.texi, hence the attached patch. >> >> Applied, thanks. Note that as R5RS is a historical document, we >> probably won't be accepting textual changes to this file, though you >> probably knew that already. > > Note that according to the R5RS, identifiers are not case sensitive, so > e.g. 'Let*' is no less correct than 'let*'. In that context, it does > not make sense to say "the identifier starts with a lowercase letter". > Also, as Andy notes, it is an historical document. > > I would advocate reverting this patch. Agreed. I would consider r5rs.texi read-only. Thanks, Ludo’.
