On 3/6/22 17:16, Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Since SRFI 232 is nearing the 60-day mark, I'd like to start wrapping
> it up.  There are a few outstanding issues under discussion, most
> prominent being a better name for lambda*.  So far, I have the
> following suggestions:
>
> * hl-lambda (Daphne)
> * schönfinkel (Marc, semi-serious)
> * lambda/curried (Wezl via IRC)
> * kappa (me)
>

Not much to say about this, except that if schönfinkel is selected then
an alternate spelling - schoenfinkel or schonfinkel - should be
available for those with keyboard layouts that don't include the letter
ö, including the en-us locale.

I think a lot of people probably don't understand just how deeply
Americans are afflicted by ignorance about how to type and use accented
characters.  TBH, we're truly pathetic about it.

Many Americans - even some programmers!  Don't have the composing AltGr
key enabled. They use it for a second 'alt' key.  Many Americans -
probably even a few programmers - aren't even aware of it.  Many
Americans have it enabled (because they are using an OS configured by
Europeans or similar) but have no idea what it is or how to use it. 
Sometimes they conclude that there's just something wrong with their
keyboard.  It hardly ever occurs to them that it might be an extended
text entry method.  Because it doesn't occur to them that extended text
entry methods even EXIST.  And those who are aware of it, often don't
know how to enable it or don't know how to use it if it's enabled.

Hell, most manufacturers making keyboards for this market even LABEL it
'alt'.  And I've encountered at least one 'mini' keyboard where it
didn't have a distinct scan code - there was literally no way for the
computer to know whether 'alt' or 'AltGr' had been pressed.

Seriously. To a first approximation we are so deeply committed to our
non-use of accented characters that the ability has effectively
atrophied - or more to the point was never learned in the first place. 
The 'A' in ASCII explains why there are no accented characters in that
set.  Nobody over here even *THOUGHT* of them.  We wasted codepoints on
things like EOT and ENC and ETX and VT instead.  We shrugged and thought
those might be nice to have so put 'em in, but nobody even tried to
argue for the inclusion of accented letters.

When absolutely forced to use an accented character I think most
Americans are picking it off a 'character map' application, which means
it takes them literally hundreds of times as long to type that single
character as it takes to type the rest of the identifier.

Bear