Best would be spelling suggestion for language extensions much like we get for other names.
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Boespflug, Mathieu <[email protected]> wrote: > FWIW, even the British can't entirely make up their mind about whether > to -ize or to -ise: > > http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/03/ize-or-ise/ > > The advantage of *not* introducing aliases is that it makes it that > much easier to exhaustively test whether some extension is turned on - > it means extensions have a canonical name that everyone uses. > > On 26 January 2015 at 17:42, Yitzchak Gale <[email protected]> wrote: > > Even though my native English is the U.S. > > variety, I still haven't gotten used to writing > > > > {-# LANGUAGE GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving #-} > > > > It's a constant compiler error for me. I'm just so accustomed > > to the idea that in the Haskell world, U.K. spelling and usage > > are the norm. > > > > Would it be difficult to add the other spelling as an alias? > > > > Just my two cents, err, tuppence, err, whatever. > > -Yitz > > > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Simon Peyton Jones > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We don't have a solid policy. Personally I prefer English, but then I > would. > >> > >> Simon > >> > >> | -----Original Message----- > >> | From: ghc-devs [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Jan > >> | Stolarek > >> | Sent: 16 January 2015 10:19 > >> | To: [email protected] > >> | Subject: American vs. British English > >> | > >> | I just realized GHC has data types named FamFlavor and FamFlavour. > >> | That said, is there a policy that says which English should be used > in > >> | the source code? > >> | > >> | Janek > >> | > >> | _______________________________________________ > >> | ghc-devs mailing list > >> | [email protected] > >> | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > >> _______________________________________________ > >> ghc-devs mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > > _______________________________________________ > > ghc-devs mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >
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