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.<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:22 AM Charles Kissinger <<a href="mailto:crk@akkyra.com">crk@akkyra.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
> On Feb 12, 2016, at 1:39 AM, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Based on the examples, #2 does seem to have the most advantages. But:<br>
> what to do with vendor prefixes? Are those to be an exception?<br>
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> Another tidbit: .NET seems to have its own exceptions--not sure if<br>
> there are rules for them, but just at the namespace level there's<br>
> System.IO and UIAutomationClientsideProviders, spelled as shown.<br>
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.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.<br>
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> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 3:07 AM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution<br>
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>> on Fri Feb 12 2016, Rob Mayoff <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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>>> I have been using #2 for years in many languages (including Objective-C and<br>
>>> more recently Swift) and much prefer it.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Incidentally, "ASCII" is one of the examples in the definition of "acronym"<br>
>>> in OS X's American English dictionary.<br>
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>> Yup, you're right.<br>
>><br>
>>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:51 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <<br>
>>> <a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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>>>> I just posted a write-up about various case conventions for initialisms:<br>
>>>> <a href="https://gist.github.com/dabrahams/55fc5ece355da4664730" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gist.github.com/dabrahams/55fc5ece355da4664730</a>. I was surprised<br>
>>>> at how it turned out, FWIW.<br>
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