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

[Douglas Gregor]

> On May 19, 2016, at 2:01 PM, charles--- via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> Well known acronym capitalization is pervasive in Cocoa APIs and as a result it enables fast and easy comprehension and writing a good quality code.
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> I could reply "they are confusing because they look like class names and clearly cause a higher number of errors in code.” 

FWIW, this became an actual problem in practice with the introduction of SE-0069 (https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0069-swift-mutability-for-foundation.md <https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0069-swift-mutability-for-foundation.md>), which bridges “NSURL” to a value type “URL”, so

  var URL: URL

becomes an actual, practical problem that consistent lowerCamelCasing of values avoids.


	- Doug

> 
> My *actual* view is that both forms cause problems, so it doesn't much matter which we go with. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On May 19, 2016, at 1:30 PM, Pavel Kapinos <kapinos at twobytesoftware.com <mailto:kapinos at twobytesoftware.com>> wrote:
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>> Hi Charles,
>> 
>> Thank you for your feedback! But we are not talking here bad or good names per se. Well known acronym capitalization is pervasive in Cocoa APIs and as a result it enables fast and easy comprehension and writing a good quality code. IMO it is quite important for future preservation in Swift 3. Have a good day!
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Pavel.
>> 
>>> On May 19, 2016, at 1:20 PM, charles at charlesism.com <mailto:charles at charlesism.com> <charlesism.com at gmail.com <mailto:charlesism.com at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>> I don't believe there's a correct answer here. Both urlHandler and URLHandler are bad names (for instances). Since we're stuck with camelCase, bad names are a fact of life.
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