change Lisp source & compiled file names in github to lower case #15
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Originally posted by @masinter in #49 (comment)
Originally posted by @nbriggs in #49 (comment) Currently, the function FILECOMS, which should be the canonical way of mapping from a filename to its commands, packs on “COMS” to the NAMEFIELD of the file. So FOO.ILISP gives you FOOCOMS, foo.ilisp gives you fooCOMS. Do we want to allow upper and lower case versions of the same file, with different commands? I think not. Originally posted by @rmkaplan in #49 (comment) |
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Filenames for Interlisp files are mainly upper case.
@nbriggs: except for the ones that people started writing from XCL, where they tended to use lowercase.
Unix and Windows default to lower case.
I think Interlisp has a model where it will match either.
Ron has warned about some kind of whereis, filepackage problem, but
that could be solved by changing the files since case shift for ascii
characters in filenames doesn't change the lengths.
Second, we should have .tedit and .sketch as well as .interlisp or
.il .lisp (save for common lisp) .ilisp .medley are all possibilities.
With filetypes that know about medley.
I don't think there's a bunch.
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