We could fix the US spelling ;¬)
seriously - is there a convention within apache / jakarta / commons to use
US or UK english spelling?
(or is it a case of consistency within sub project)
Matt
-Original Message-
From: Gary Gregory [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 13 August 2003 18:57
. FWIW, the
JavaBeans Introspector.decapitalize() uses the American version.
David
Gary
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From: Jon Wingfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 11:16
To: Jakarta Commons Developers List
Subject: Re: StringUtils misspelled method names
--- Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bearing in mind the fact that Linux is going through the same argument,
what's your reasoning?
The ASF is a US registered organisation.
Most users of Apache code are from the US.
Most commiters in the ASF are from the US [though I think US
I think the 's' versions are British.
David
--- Gary Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unless I am not seing straight, the following are not spelled properly:
1) capitalise
2) capitaliseAllWords
3) uncapitalise
4) uncapitaliseAllWords
They should be:
capitalize
capitalizeAllWords
Eh, US English really should be the standard.
Henri Yandell wrote:
It's up to the people concerned.
When I first pushed that code in, I offered to standardise on US english
spelling but it wasn't something the Commons list wanted to do.
So I figure it's a nice way to educate people that the
To: Jakarta Commons Developers List
Subject: Re: StringUtils misspelled method names?
FYI
//1 definitions retrieved
//capitalise wn WordNet (r) 1.7
capitalise
v 1: supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination
of capital used by investors and debt capital
Bearing in mind the fact that Linux is going through the same argument,
what's your reasoning?
The ASF is a US registered organisation.
Most users of Apache code are from the US.
Most commiters in the ASF are from the US [though I think US committers
are the minority in Commons Lang].
others?
ChemInformatics
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From: Henri Yandell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 2:10 PM
To: Jakarta Commons Developers List
Subject: RE: StringUtils misspelled method names?
It's up to the people concerned.
When I first pushed that code in, I offered to standardise
