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

Thomas Schilling writes:

Pascal J.Bourguignon wrote:

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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.