There has just been a debate on the Linux Kernel mailing list about this - actually a lot of that code is in British English.
I say it should be whatever the majority of developers are comfortable with and it must be consistent across the project. Everyone else can press Ctrl-space in their IDE :) US English sounds fine in general - the rest of the world is usually aware of how the spellings differ (although the reverse is not always the case :) Cheers, Brett > -----Original Message----- > From: Simon Kitching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 14 August 2003 9:30 AM > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > Subject: Re: [lang] StringUtils misspelled method names? > > > As a user of, rather than contributor to, lang, I agree with Stephen. > > While also a "Queen's English" user, the convention for > programming libraries is clearly established as US English. > All the java standard libraries use this convention, so it > seems inconsistent to use other spelling elsewhere. I bet C++ > libraries, Gnome libraries, etc. also use US English > spellings for public methods. > > Regards, > > Simon > > On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 11:23, Stephen Colebourne wrote: > > Although I am English and use the correct English spelling, I would > > probably prefer these to be spelt as US english. > > > > Why? Well practically all computer driven spelling is US, eg. > > capitalize (US English) not capitalise (correct English) color (US > > English) not colour (correct English) > > > > If we are to change them, then this is the time. The [lang] 2.0 > > release is the tidy up release involving deprecations. I > don't expect > > or want further deprecations in 3.0. > > > > Having said that, I can't work up the will to actually make the > > change. So > > +1 if someone wants to make the effort and supply a patch. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
