[swift-evolution] Analysis of case conventions for initialisms

[Xiaodi Wu]

Thanks for clarifying the .NET exception! I think that usage, whether you
call it #2-with-two-letter-exception or #4 (as proposed above), might find
the highest acceptance. +1 to that from me.
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:22 AM Charles Kissinger <crk at akkyra.com> wrote:

>
> > 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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