Alex Shinn <xxxxxx@synthcode.com> writes:

> Scheme identifiers are case-sensitive, it's just the reader that by
> default performs a case-mapping.  From R5RS:
>
>      (eq? 'bitBlt (string->symbol "bitBlt"))
>                ==>  #f

> So to be consistent with this we should change the paragraph under
> lexical conventions which reads:
>
>   Upper and lower case forms of a letter are never distinguished except
>   within character and string constants.  For example, `Foo' is the same
>   identifier as `FOO', and #x1AB is the same number as #X1ab.
>
> to something like
>
>   Upper and lower case forms of a letter are never distinguished except
>   within character and string constants.  For example, `Foo' is the same
>   identifier as `FOO', and #x1AB is the same number as #X1ab.  The case
>   mapping or comparison procedures used for this use
>   (scheme-standard-locale) as the locale argument.

Yes, quite right.