Re: swiss army knife

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak@knm.org.pl> writes:

> Joe Marshall <jrm@ccs.neu.edu> writes:
> 
>
> Yes, U+1D435 MATHEMATICAL ITALIC CAPITAL B is different than
> U+1D401 MATHEMATICAL BOLD CAPITAL B.

Are you suggesting that it is reasonable (by default) to use *both* of
these as non-clashing identifiers in a single program?!
 
>
> Why excluding?

Because I am arguing that capitalization is a typographic convention
that happens to be used for indicating proper names and the beginning
of sentences, not a spelling convention that is used to distinguish
words.

> My case-sensitive language Kogut as a convention uses capitalized
> names for globals except types, lowercase names for locals, and all
> caps for type names.

Ugh.

> This solves the problem which is brought up as a justification for
> Lisp's separation of function and value namespaces.

I've never bought that argument.