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Case­Insensitivity

cowan
2012-07-12 02:36:45
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Symbol case-sensitivity

Racket, Gauche, Gambit, Chicken, Bigloo, scsh, Guile, Kawa, Chibi, Chez, Vicare, Larceny, Ypsilon, Mosh, IronScheme, NexJ, KSi, SigScheme, Shoe, RScheme, Scheme 7, BDC, Rep, Schemik, Llava, Sizzle, Spark, Femtolisp, Dfsch, Owl Lisp return #f to (eq? 't 'T).

MIT, Scheme48, SISC, SCM, STklos, TinyScheme, Scheme 9, Dream, XLisp, Elk, UMB, VX, Oaklisp, SXM, Inlab return #t.

Preferred case is upper case

I also decided to check the case-insensitive implementations using (string=? (symbol->string 't) "T") to see which ones converted symbols to upper case internally. Only XLisp (which is not really Scheme-compliant) and Oaklisp (which is somewhat R3RS-compliant) did so.

Character name case-sensitivity

Is #\Space a valid constant?

Racket, Gauche, MIT, Bigloo, Scheme48, Guile, Kawa, Chibi, Chez, NexJ, STklos, KSi, SigScheme, TinyScheme, Scheme 9, Dream, RScheme, Rep, Elk, Oaklisp, Llava, SXM, Spark, Dfsch, Inlab accept #\Space.

Gambit, Chicken, scsh, Vicare, Ypsilon, Mosh, IronScheme, Shoe, Scheme 7, Schemik, UMB, Sizzle, FemtoLisp, Owl Lisp reject #\Space.