On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM Daphne Preston-Kendal <[email protected]>
wrote:


> Hmm, okay, but the sentence ‘None of the identifiers defined in this
> report contain upper-case characters, even when they appear to do so as a
> result of the English-language convention of capitalizing the first word of
> a sentence’ survived. (Section 2.1, left hand column of page 8.) There
> doesn’t seem to be a corresponding convention in R6RS, though variables
> used in the specification of procedures are consistently capitalized at the
> start of sentences there.
>

I left that in in case I missed one.

I'm sure I'm being pedantic, but at the same time I found the decision to
make Scheme case-sensitive pedantic, too.


> It feels awkward to require sentences to be reworded to avoid this, though
> in general I suppose it is as simple as replacing ‘X is …’ with ‘The x
> procedure is …’.
>

I'm happy to make the edits.  That's the replacement I often went with, and
I don't think it makes things read badly if not overused.

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