Re: symbol name with case preserved

From: Pascal Bourguignon (spam_at_thalassa.informatimago.com)
Date: 01/20/04 

Date: 20 Jan 2004 00:07:14 +0100

Timothy Moore <moore@trousse.labri.fr> writes:

> Pascal Bourguignon <spam@thalassa.informatimago.com> writes:
>
> > Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> writes:
> > > If you decide to investigate READTABLE-CASE, you wil run into a very
> > > annoying problem: the case of Common Lisp symbols is upper-case, which
> > > these days is useful mostly in news articles like this to make them
> > > stand out from other words, so if you ask for :PRESERVE, you get to
> > > shout a lot. It would have been easy to break with the past and
>
> > Silly suggestion:
> >
> > (defpackage "common-lisp"
> > [...]
> This doesn't work for special forms. Too bad.

Yes it does because you can always cover a special form with a macro.
All special forms can be implemented by a macro the standard says. 

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