[swift-evolution] Analysis of case conventions for initialisms

Dave Abrahams dabrahams at apple.com
Fri Feb 12 18:10:08 CST 2016


on Fri Feb 12 2016, Dave Abrahams <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> on Thu Feb 11 2016, Dave Abrahams <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.
>
> FYI, it looks like the API guidelines working group has settled on
> convention #1, which is what the standard library currently does.
>
> Coincidentally, this seems to have resulted in the fewest number of
> strong objections in an area where strong opinions abound (except for
> Trent—sorry, Trent).

I should also say, sorry that my solicitation of edits for the analysis
document went out so late; that was a technical glitch.  They were
composed this morning just before my connectivity dropped.

-- 
-Dave



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