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
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Subject: StringUtils misspelled method names?
Unless I am not seing straight, the following are not spelled
properly:
1) capitalise
2) capitaliseAllWords
3) uncapitalise
4) uncapitaliseAllWords
They should be:
capitalize
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
. FWIW, the
JavaBeans Introspector.decapitalize() uses the American version.
David
Gary
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From: Jon Wingfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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
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From: Simon Kitching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 14 August 2003 9:30 AM
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As a user of, rather than contributor to, lang, I agree with Stephen
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Subject: RE: [lang] StringUtils misspelled method names?
The difficulty comes in what you define the project as. If it's Lang, then
we generally don't care. If it's Jakarta, then I suspect there's a strong
enough pro-US vote.
As none of the non-US-english writing people so
August 2003 18:57
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Subject: StringUtils misspelled method names?
Unless I am not seing straight, the following are not spelled
properly:
1) capitalise
2) capitaliseAllWords
3) uncapitalise
4) uncapitaliseAllWords
They should
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
uncapitalize
uncapitalizeAllWords
Which is *capitalize* with a 'z' not an 's'.
Should we fix the
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
: 13 August 2003 18:57
To: 'Jakarta Commons Developers List'
Subject: StringUtils misspelled method names?
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
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From: Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: RE: [lang] StringUtils misspelled method names?
Change commited. I'm not sure how much javadoc we do for deprecated
, August 14, 2003 1:08 AM
Subject: RE: [lang] StringUtils misspelled method names?
Change commited. I'm not sure how much javadoc we do for deprecated
methods. I can happily c+p some javadoc but have done the normal simple
deprecated/link line rather than repeat the javadoc all over again.
I've
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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
)
Matt
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From: Gary Gregory [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 13 August 2003 18:57
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Subject: StringUtils misspelled method names?
Unless I am not seing straight, the following are not spelled
properly:
1) capitalise
2
ChemInformatics
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From: Henri Yandell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 2:10 PM
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Subject: RE: StringUtils misspelled method names?
It's up to the people concerned.
When I first pushed that code in, I offered to standardise
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