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    > We are not going to change the fact that Emacs Lisp symbols are
    > case-sensitive, nor the fact that file names on GNU-like systems
    > are case sensitive.

    No one was proposing either thing.

Becuase those things are not going to be changed, arguing about the
good or bad of case-sensitivity is not useful, and I would like people
to move that argument elsewhere.