[swift-evolution] Analysis of case conventions for initialisms

[Dave Abrahams]

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> On Feb 12, 2016, at 6:25 AM, Xiaodi Wu <xiaodi.wu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Sorry, by vendor prefix I mean the NS in NSArray, or AV in AVURLAsset, etc. Does #2 mean that we are to have AvUrlAsset? Or AVUrlAsset?

It's a good question. 

BTW, no decision has been made on this yet, in case it wasn't clear to you. 

> 
>> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 4:20 AM Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>> 
>> on Fri Feb 12 2016, Xiaodi Wu <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>> 
>> > Based on the examples, #2 does seem to have the most advantages. But:
>> > what to do with vendor prefixes? Are those to be an exception?
>> 
>> Can you some examples of a “vendor prefix?”
>> 
>> > Another tidbit: .NET seems to have its own exceptions--not sure if
>> > there are rules for them, but just at the namespace level there's
>> > System.IO and UIAutomationClientsideProviders, spelled as shown.
>> 
>> Thanks for pointing those out.
>> 
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 3:07 AM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution
>> > <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> on Fri Feb 12 2016, Rob Mayoff <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> I have been using #2 for years in many languages (including Objective-C and
>> >>> more recently Swift) and much prefer it.
>> >>>
>> >>> Incidentally, "ASCII" is one of the examples in the definition of "acronym"
>> >>> in OS X's American English dictionary.
>> >>
>> >> Yup, you're right.
>> >>
>> >>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:51 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <
>> >>> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I just posted a write-up about various case conventions for initialisms:
>> >>>> https://gist.github.com/dabrahams/55fc5ece355da4664730.  I was surprised
>> >>>> at how it turned out, FWIW.
>> >>>>
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