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.
