[Mesa-dev] docs: consistent language

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Tue Mar 16 10:06:36 UTC 2021


On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 at 20:54, Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net> wrote:

> Three comments:
>
>  1. +1
>  2. Khronos has generally standardized on American English in their
> specs so I guess that provides some sort of prior art or something.
>  3. I'd generally be a fan of encouraging American spellings in common
> code as well.  As someone who doesn't use auto-complete, having to
> remember which variable is named "color" and which is "colour" would
> get painful.  Fortunately, we don't have a whole lot of variation here
> but it'd be good to keep consistency.


4. UK English is unarguably correct and better.
5. That doesn't change point #3 in particular; just like coding style, one
'bad' choice is better than no choice at all.

Cheers,
Daniel
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