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-ise or -ize?

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 5:01 pm
by 1337
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.

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 9:34 pm
by beni
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?

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 9:37 pm
by 1337
No it is not of course. Just curious ;)
But I'm going to stick to -ize if many people vote for American English ^^

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 11:43 pm
by Mozork
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. ;)

Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 1:47 am
by x3n
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.

Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 9:51 am
by 1337
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?

Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 12:57 pm
by x3n
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

Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 1:01 pm
by 1337
Then I shall start to convert all our code into British English :twisted:

Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 2:17 pm
by greenman
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

Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 2:40 pm
by 1337
As I have posted earlier: No, of course not. Please read all the posts before answering, thanks.

Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 3:24 pm
by greenman
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.