mm0fmf wrote: > On 09/10/2014 02:29, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> Apart from the horrible spelling of colour :-) > > I've always spelt colour as "color" when programming and as "colour" > when writing language including documentation about software. > > colour in a programme doesn't seem right.
"Normal" programmers spell words the same in code as they do outside of code, e.g.: age address length modulo the odd abbreviation like "len", "addr", etc., and coding conventions like camelCase, underscore_words, sHungarianNotation, etc. So if you spell colour with a U outside of code, I would expect you to spell it with a U inside of code too. Unix programmers take every opportunity to obfuscate their code by dropping nouns and consonants, so I'd expect them to spell "colo(u)r" as something like clr, colr, clor, or even clour. Web programmers tend to make random spelling mistakes ("referer"), so I'd expect "coluor", or perhaps "kolour". But I've never come across your convention of spelling it "colour" in documentation and "color" in code before. How very strange. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list