-ise or -ize?

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What coding language do you prefer?

British English
5
56%
American English
4
44%
 
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-ise or -ize?

Post by 1337 » Sat Nov 01, 2008 5:01 pm

Simple question: Shall we stick to British or American English when writing code?

Personally I always use British English when I can help it.
Btw, OGRE uses British conventions because of Steve Streeting as the project lead of course.
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Post by beni » Sat Nov 01, 2008 9:34 pm

I prefer American English as I watch a lot of American and nearly none British TV. However as you pointed out, we do use Ogre as a graphics engine and as it is written by a British and written British, I vote for British English coding.

But is this really important?
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Post by 1337 » Sat Nov 01, 2008 9:37 pm

No it is not of course. Just curious ;)
But I'm going to stick to -ize if many people vote for American English ^^
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Post by Mozork » Sat Nov 01, 2008 11:43 pm

You gotta love the -ize. ;)

And as for American vs. British TV:
I mean seriously, not even "The Office" is just as good in British, only exception: "Coupling" which is just ingenious. ;)

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Post by x3n » Sun Nov 02, 2008 1:47 am

I use -ize everywhere in the code, simply because A > B (although I personally prefer -ise). Consistency is important and because 90% of our code uses -ize we should stick to the american form.
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Post by 1337 » Sun Nov 02, 2008 9:51 am

x3n wrote:I use -ize everywhere in the code, simply because A > B (although I personally prefer -ise). Consistency is important and because 90% of our code uses -ize we should stick to the american form.
Does that imply that I wrote less than 10% of the code? :P

I've had a look with search and find: I'd say about 70%.
Now that I've been consistently using -ise, shall I inconsistently switch over to -ize or not?
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Post by x3n » Sun Nov 02, 2008 12:57 pm

1337 wrote:
x3n wrote:I use -ize everywhere in the code, simply because A > B (although I personally prefer -ise). Consistency is important and because 90% of our code uses -ize we should stick to the american form.
Does that imply that I wrote less than 10% of the code? :P

I've had a look with search and find: I'd say about 70%.
No but it says I only know 30% of your code :P
Now that I've been consistently using -ise, shall I inconsistently switch over to -ize or not?
Well, I don't force you to do anything as long as you don't switch all my code from -ize to -ise :D
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Post by 1337 » Sun Nov 02, 2008 1:01 pm

Then I shall start to convert all our code into British English :twisted:
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Post by greenman » Sun Nov 02, 2008 2:17 pm

i personally think its a moot point to discuss about whether using -ise or -ize. do you really think it's important to have consistent spelling in our code ?

i think almost nothing is as unimportant as spelling is :P
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Post by 1337 » Sun Nov 02, 2008 2:40 pm

As I have posted earlier: No, of course not. Please read all the posts before answering, thanks.
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Post by greenman » Sun Nov 02, 2008 3:24 pm

i did indeed read all the posts
Now that I've been consistently using -ise, shall I inconsistently switch over to -ize or not?
that doesn't seem to me that its unimportant to you.
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