American vs. British English

[Simon Peyton Jones]

|  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.

It's too late.  We have aliases for lots of pragmas and language extensions, and probably should have one for this too, if only for consistency.

(If someone wants to be consistent the other way, and builds a consensus for taking them all out, that's fine by me too.)

Meanwhile, would someone like to add the alias for GeneralisedNewtypeDeriving?

Simon

|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: Boespflug, Mathieu [mailto:m at tweag.io]
|  Sent: 26 January 2015 18:17
|  To: gale at sefer.org
|  Cc: Simon Peyton Jones; ghc-devs at haskell.org
|  Subject: 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 <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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