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#### (A) by default (initially) a system should be case sensitive

#### (B) by default (initially) a system should be case insensitive

#### (C) a system should have ability to turn on/off case sensitivity

#### (D) a system should support case insensitivity in ASCII

#### (E) a system should support case insensitivity in Unicode

#### (F) a system should provide a hybrid case-sensitivity mode: if exact match is not found, try to find in case insensitive mode

#### (G) a system should provide a hybrid case-sensitivity mode: if exact match is not found, try to find the name in upper case

Nice idea to make a list of various naming conventions found in the wild. Many of them was also mentioned in "Thinking Forth", Appendix E, "Naming conventions" section — with...

"_Let commands perform themselves_" is a corollary to "_Avoid expectations (in the input stream)_". But actually we have `[']`, `POSTPONE`, `S"`,etc, parsing words that do expectation (i.e. look ahead into...

> Is it possible for a Forth to have a Common Lisp like "condition handling" system? Yes. The standard exception handling mechanism can do what the `restart-case` function does in...