American vs. British English

[Greg Weber]

Best would be spelling suggestion for language extensions much like we get
for other names.

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Boespflug, Mathieu <m at tweag.io> wrote:

> 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 <gale at sefer.org> 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
> > <simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
> >> 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 at haskell.org] On Behalf Of
> Jan
> >> |  Stolarek
> >> |  Sent: 16 January 2015 10:19
> >> |  To: ghc-devs at 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
> >> |
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