On Wednesday, 14 de December de 2011 09.46.10, Atlant Schmidt wrote: > Thomas: > > names like 'xml' are no longer abbreviations, they are product names. > > Not just something that Qt made up, but industry wide known product names. > > > > As such they should have only one capital. > > I absolutely disagree with this. > > The correct spelling of "XML" is "XML". The only time we > should deviate from that is when it's part of a CamelCase > name, and even that causes confusion and error. > > Similarly, the correct spelling of "SQL" is "SQL". > > When Wikipedia changes the article names to "Xml" or "Sql", > then you might have a case. But until that time...
I'm arriving a bit late to the discussion, but...
For now, these terms are still known as acronyms, so they should be referred
as such: Qt XML module, Qt XML module, Qt MIME classes, etc. Eventually, the
acronym may be forgotten and it might crystallise as a word, but we're not
there yet.
But the Qt naming guidelines require acronyms to be treated as one word and
only the first letter to be capitalised:
#include <QtXml>
QSqlDatabase
QMimeFoo
Except where it would be silly:
QHostAddress::toIPv4Address()
Here, "IP" did not get lowercased to "Ip" because it's followed by "v"
Alternatively, we could have done "Ip4"
QtDBus
The technology name is not an acronym, but two "words": D-Bus
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