Eric Kow <[email protected]> writes:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:07:20 +0200, Daniel Carrera wrote:
>> Hence, your insistence that the form you are used to is the exclusively
>> correct version is incorrect and is really just a result of the country
>> you live in.
>
> This is going too far :-)
>
> If I may wade in and make a totally arbitrary decision, let's
> standardise on the Darcs's form.
Argh, who is in charge here? (This is what happens when I ignore a long
thread for a week.)
> And while we're at it, I think we're stuck with American spelling by
> precedent.
Ahem. The Darcs source code, at least, has good parts of British
English. As a hopelessly unrepresentative example:
$ grep -ro 'ise\>' src | wc -l
296
$ grep -hro '[a-z]\+ise\>' src | sort -u | paste -sd ' '
advise concise dependencywise exercise likewise normalise optimise
otherwise precise recognise therwise wise
$ grep -ro 'ize\>' src | wc -l
202
$ grep -hro '[a-z]\+ize\>' src | sort -u | paste -sd ' '
authorize canonicalize canonize initialize itemize modernize
nitialize normalize optimize organize ormalize ptimize realize
recognize resize sanitize size summarize
I'm happy to accept any dialect in our documentation (I personally aim
for en_OED). If someone wants to submit "churn" patches to anglicize or
americanize swathes of documentation (or code), we can re-examine the
matter then.
While we're on the subject, should we make hidden aliases "darcs
initialise" and "darcs optimise"? ;-)
_______________________________________________
darcs-users mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
