<div dir="ltr">At least in my experience, "indices" is used throughout technical documentation and code, such as the official docs of Python, Java, and C#.<div><br></div><div>I'm not strongly opposed to "indexes", but I think there should be a stronger reason to change it other than that it has easier discoverability for non-English speakers (who can search for it in a few seconds). I think of "indices" as a term of art or a word in a technical dialect of English.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Joe Groff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jgroff@apple.com" target="_blank">jgroff@apple.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
> On Apr 11, 2016, at 9:48 AM, Stephen Canon <<a href="mailto:scanon@apple.com">scanon@apple.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Joe’s isn’t saying that “Indexes” is more common, rather that it’s regular (i.e. follows the usual declension rule for plurals); there’s tradeoffs each way, but using the regular plural might make it more familiar for some non-native speakers/readers.<br>
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</span>Yeah. From personal experience I've worked with many developers for whom "indices" was an unfamiliar term, whereas "indexes" was immediately obvious.<br>
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