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From: cmaeda@A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (Christopher Maeda)
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Subject: Bug in MIT-Scheme
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Date: 23 Mar 90 20:54:56 GMT
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   Date: Thu, 22 Mar 90 07:01:42 est
   From: "Guillermo J. Rozas" <jinx@zurich.ai.mit.edu>
   Reply-To: jinx@zurich.ai.mit.edu

   It would be nice if the reports included a procedure called INTERN (or
   something like that) which when given a string, would canonicalize it
   (transform it to the standard case) and then use string->symbol on it.
   The report does not have such functionality, although it can be
   defined portably (using some inessential procedures), albeit somewhat
   awkwardly:

It should be mentioned that Common Lisp doesn't do this either.
Calls to intern (in Common Lisp) need to upcase the symbol names.

ie 
(intern "ZiPpY") ==> |ZiPpY|
(intern (string-upcase "ZiPpY")) ==> ZIPPY ;; depends on print case variable