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Lowercase controversy
- To: EJS at MIT-MC, KMP at MIT-MC, BUG-LISP at MIT-MC, Dave.Touretzky at CMU-10A
- Subject: Lowercase controversy
- From: "Guy L. Steele, Jr." <GLS at MIT-MC>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 80 04:25:00 GMT
- Original-date: 14 April 1980 23:25-EST
Date: 8 April 1980 19:37-EST
From: Eric J. Swenson <EJS at MIT-MC>
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What we are advocating is not user-written error messages, but LISP
interpreter error messages.
Funny -- I like the fact that LISP system error messages are all upper case,
because then I can maker mine lower case, and thus immediately tell
whether an error was one detected by the system or by my program.
But I agree -- lower case messages are more readabl, WHEN CORRECTLY
CAPITALIZED AND PUNCTUATED!