[slime-devel] Re: Symbols in COMMON-LISP are all in UPPER CASE!

[Pascal J.Bourguignon]

Thomas Schilling writes:
> Pascal J.Bourguignon wrote:
> 
> > Symbols in COMMON-LISP are all in upper case. (Yes, I know, it's a
> > little known fact about COMMON-LISP).
> 
> No, not necessarily in all lisp impls. (e.g. AFAIK Allegro has a switch 
> for that)
> 
> Just nitpicking. (Dunno, if that changes anything of your statement.)

Note the difference between what I write and what you write:

     Symbols in COMMON-LISP are all in upper case. 
     Not necessarily in all LISP IMPLS.


In COMMON-LISP, all the symbols exported by the COMMON-LISP package
are in upper case, as indicated by the last paragraph of:

    http://www.lispworks.com/reference/HyperSpec/Body/01_dada.htm


If an given implementation choose to add an option to diverge from
conformance, it's its problem.

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