[swift-evolution] Analysis of case conventions for initialisms

[Charles Kissinger]

> On Feb 12, 2016, at 1:39 AM, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution <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?
> 
> 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.

.NET has a specific exception for two-letter initialisms. They are all uppercase (or all lowercase at the start of a variable name). It’s in their guidelines, but I don’t think they say much about the rationale. I imagine they decided Io, Ui, etc. just don’t look right.

—CK

> 
> 
> 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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