comaptibility in STRING usage

[JONL at MIT-MC (Jon L White)]

    Date: 20 October 1980 04:54-EDT
    From: Alan Bawden <ALAN at MIT-MC>
    If the MacLisp string package is trying to be LispMachine-like, then
    (equal "Foo" "fOO") should return T.
In fact, the NIL-I group had rather decided that EQUAL should not call
STRING-EQUAL, which is the LISPM-compatible function, but rather do
a more strict equivalence;  this is reflected in the code for the
method  EQUAL->STRING-CLASS, and could be easily changed, but I suppose
we'd lobby for LISPM making the change instead (i.e., making a distinction
between the two kinds of string-equality, and letting EQUAL call thhe
more strict one rather than STRING-EQUAL as currently defined.)