On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:22:59AM +0100, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote:
> The reason for them, as I saw it, was that #t and #f are easy to confuse
> in many fonts, which is an accident waiting to happen!

That's just silly.  The user can get a proper font, this is not
something the language needs to work around.  Next you'll say we need to
force uppercase identifiers because the number 1 and the letter l can be
confused too easily otherwise!

Also, what the hell kind of font confuses these two letters?  t looks
like an upside-down f in most fonts, which is a very clear difference.
If you're afraid they get confused, allow them to be case-insensitive:
#T is very different from #F, and that's already supported by most
Schemes.

Cheers,
Peter
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