SRFI 277: Cyclic ports Arthur A. Gleckler (08 Jul 2026 10:58 UTC)
Re: SRFI 277: Cyclic ports John Cowan (08 Jul 2026 11:40 UTC)
Re: SRFI 277: Cyclic ports Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (09 Jul 2026 04:31 UTC)
Re: SRFI 277: Cyclic ports Alex Shinn (08 Jul 2026 14:03 UTC)

Re: SRFI 277: Cyclic ports Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe 09 Jul 2026 04:30 UTC

John,

On 2026-07-08 07:39 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> While bolding RFC 2119 modal verbs is less visually intrusive than
> capitalizing them, R7RS shows that it is not necessary to do either, as
> long as you search the text for stray instances of "must", "shall",
> "should", "may", and "required". I have always thought that distinguishing
> between "must" and "MUST" produces nothing but confusion.

Alright.  I'll defer to your judgement.  I liked the emphasized
keywords in Peter's SRFI 270 as an alternative to putting them in
all-caps.  But you're probably right.

Thanks.

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