Re: Downcase of a symbol

2016-08-13 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: >>Case insensitivity is almost never a good idea. It leads to stuff that >>sometimes works and sometimes fails under mysterious circumstances. >> >>For example, you are aware that in a Turkish locale, I downcases to ı >>instead of i , and i uppercases to İ instead of I ? >> >>A

Re: Downcase of a symbol

2016-08-13 Thread Urs Liska
>Case insensitivity is almost never a good idea. It leads to stuff that >sometimes works and sometimes fails under mysterious circumstances. > >For example, you are aware that in a Turkish locale, I downcases to ı >instead of i , and i uppercases to İ instead of I ? > >And if you do search-and-

Re: Downcase of a symbol

2016-08-13 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > Am 13.08.2016 um 08:10 schrieb David Kastrup: >> Urs Liska writes: >> >>> I have written a function to return the lowercase version of a symbol >>> for use in my library as >>> >>> % Return the lowercase version of a symbol >>> #(define (symbol->lowercase sym) >>>(string-

Re: Downcase of a symbol

2016-08-13 Thread Urs Liska
Am 13.08.2016 um 08:10 schrieb David Kastrup: > Urs Liska writes: > >> I have written a function to return the lowercase version of a symbol >> for use in my library as >> >> % Return the lowercase version of a symbol >> #(define (symbol->lowercase sym) >>(string->symbol >> (string-downc

Re: Downcase of a symbol

2016-08-13 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > I have written a function to return the lowercase version of a symbol > for use in my library as > > % Return the lowercase version of a symbol > #(define (symbol->lowercase sym) >(string->symbol > (string-downcase > (symbol->string sym > > Just a small questi