[swift-evolution] SE-0005 ==> Please keep well know acronyms capitalized!

Pavel Kapinos kapinos at twobytesoftware.com
Thu May 19 13:56:57 CDT 2016


Hi Brent,

Thank you for you encouragement! Please join in to support it **now**!

Cheers,
Pavel.

> On May 19, 2016, at 11:53 AM, Brent Royal-Gordon <brent at architechies.com> wrote:
> 
>> SE-0005 "Better Translation of Objective-C APIs Into Swift Proposal” in Proposed Solution # 6 "Lowercase values" suggests “to lowercase non-prefixed values whenever they are imported” with an example of URLHandler property becoming urlHandler. Being long time Cocoa developer, I object to this particular example and would like to suggest to keep capitalized any well known acronyms, like ASCII, PDF, URL etc. as they are now in Cocoa. Thank you!
> 
> I and others fought and lost this particular battle back when the guidelines were being drafted. Just be glad you didn't end up with uppercase rules calling for things like `UrlComponents`.
> 
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> Brent Royal-Gordon
> Architechies
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