<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 14, 2016, at 8:33 AM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">on Sat Feb 13 2016, Tyler Fleming Cloutier <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I don’t care what the heck it is as long as someone tells me whether<br class="">to use userID or userId. I’ve spent too many hours obsessing over this<br class="">and I still keep going back and forth. What is ID anyway? It seems<br class="">like it’s both an initialism and an acronym.<br class=""><br class="">I think I lean towards #2 for a simple reason: the rules are the same<br class="">for initialisms, acronyms, abbreviations, words, or what have you. I<br class="">just want whatever guidelines are going to allow me to pick a casing<br class="">and move on with my life as soon as possible. The guideline with the<br class="">fewest rules is going to be the best at that.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">FYI,<br class=""><a href="http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=m2twld4iax.fsf@eno.apple.com" class="">http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=m2twld4iax.fsf%40eno.apple.com</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Ah, thanks! </div><div><br class=""></div><div>So that would be userID then, since ID is pronounced “eye-dee”, right? If it were pronounced “id” it would be userId, correct? I’m going to be so excited to put this one to bed.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Tyler</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">-Dave<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">swift-evolution mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a><br class="">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>