From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: bug#10486: Patch: Fix case in identifiers starting sentences in doc/r5rs/r5rs.texi Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:43:06 +0100 Message-ID: <878vkkrh51.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87pqeoj3y1.fsf@goof.localdomain> <87aa51o4lz.fsf@pobox.com> <87k445cnot.fsf@netris.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328222622 30107 80.91.229.3 (2 Feb 2012 22:43:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 22:43:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Bake Timmons , 10486@debbugs.gnu.org To: Mark H Weaver Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 02 23:43:41 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rt5NR-0001Xp-Pt for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:43:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36584 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rt5NR-0007NE-AA for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:43:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:42955) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rt5NO-0007Mw-7t for bug-guile@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:43:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rt5NN-000234-4J for bug-guile@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:43:34 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:47799) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rt5NN-00022z-0b for bug-guile@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:43:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Rt5Np-0003Kn-Mo for bug-guile@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:44:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-guile@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:44:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 10486 X-GNU-PR-Package: guile X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 10486-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B10486.132822262012781 (code B ref 10486); Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:44:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10486) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Feb 2012 22:43:40 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51422 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Rt5NT-0003K3-LW for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:43:40 -0500 Original-Received: from xanadu.aquilenet.fr ([88.191.123.111]:45122) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Rt5NR-0003Jr-PO for 10486@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:43:38 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (xanadu.aquilenet.fr [127.0.0.1]) by xanadu.aquilenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D43DD242D; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 23:43:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from xanadu.aquilenet.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (xanadu.aquilenet.fr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id wIAcZUknFYqt; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 23:43:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from pluto (reverse-83.fdn.fr [80.67.176.83]) by xanadu.aquilenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 18CAE7B3; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 23:43:06 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 14 =?UTF-8?Q?Pluvi=C3=B4se?= an 220 de la =?UTF-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <87k445cnot.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:30:42 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:6173 Archived-At: Hi, Mark H Weaver skribis: > Andy Wingo writes: > >> On Thu 12 Jan 2012 17:11, Bake Timmons writes: >> >>> The GNU coding standards advise sticking with proper case for >>> identifiers, even if the identifier starts with a lowercase letter and >>> appears at the beginning of a sentence. >>> >>> The Guile manual seems to follow this convention, with the exception of >>> r5rs.texi, hence the attached patch. >> >> Applied, thanks. Note that as R5RS is a historical document, we >> probably won't be accepting textual changes to this file, though you >> probably knew that already. > > Note that according to the R5RS, identifiers are not case sensitive, so > e.g. 'Let*' is no less correct than 'let*'. In that context, it does > not make sense to say "the identifier starts with a lowercase letter". > Also, as Andy notes, it is an historical document. > > I would advocate reverting this patch. Agreed. I would consider r5rs.texi read-only. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.