Re: American vs. British English

FWIW, even the British can't entirely make up their mind about whether to -ize or to -ise: http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/03/ize-or-ise/ The advantage of *not* introducing aliases is that it makes it that much easier to exhaustively test whether some extension is turned on - it means extensions have a canonical name that everyone uses. On 26 January 2015 at 17:42, Yitzchak Gale wrote:

Even though my native English is the U.S. variety, I still haven't gotten used to writing

{-# LANGUAGE GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving #-}

It's a constant compiler error for me. I'm just so accustomed to the idea that in the Haskell world, U.K. spelling and usage are the norm.

Would it be difficult to add the other spelling as an alias?

Just my two cents, err, tuppence, err, whatever. -Yitz

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:

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We don't have a solid policy. Personally I prefer English, but then I would.

Simon

| -----Original Message----- | From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Jan | Stolarek | Sent: 16 January 2015 10:19 | To: ghc-devs@haskell.org | Subject: American vs. British English | | I just realized GHC has data types named FamFlavor and FamFlavour. | That said, is there a policy that says which English should be used in | the source code? | | Janek | | _______________________________________________ | ghc-devs mailing list | ghc-devs@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs

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