Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

[Bernard Helyer]

On Wednesday, 7 March 2012 at 18:39:41 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator at gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:sgmfyzmrfygshlmfqsdj at forum.dlang.org...
>> On Tuesday, 6 March 2012 at 20:20:47 UTC, Derek wrote:
>>> Should we use American or English spelling? Color verses 
>>> Colour, for example?
>>
>> I can go either way. I lean toward English spelling
>> though, simply because America is the exceptional
>> country (in the world and on the newsgroup too) in
>> this regard.
>>
>
> British English may be the more "official" English, with 
> American English as
> a mere variation, but AIUI, the "de facto international 
> language" is
> American English, not British English, as a result of the US 
> being a
> long-time major economic superpower (for better or worse). 
> England used to
> be a major superpower, but that was centuries ago, and from 
> what I can tell,
> American English seems to be the preferred "de facto standard" 
> English now.
>
>> But, either option is better than "Clr" or "Col".
>
> "clr" is the verb "clear" and "col" is "column" :)

In my programs I use British English because that's what I use, 
and anything else looks 'wrong' to me. If the API is particularly 
public, I usually provide an alias. Then again, I'm just a 
colonial hick, so what would I know? :P