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Subject: Re: Weird class names [WAS RE: [VOTE] Release Commons IO 2.0 based on
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On Oct 11, 2010, at 11:49 AM, Gary Gregory wrote:

> Hi All:
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> The more I think about it and read it, the more non-English and odd =
the word "filesystem" feels to me. I would never write: 'Do this or that =
with the filesystem.' It just sounds Dutch or German to me. That's what =
I get for working with Dutch people :)
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Speaking as a native American English speaker and confessed =
spelling/grammar nazi, I would personally *prefer* to see the compound =
"filesystem" used instead of "file system".  I consider it to be simply =
one of those computing terms that is no less correct for your spell =
checking software refusing to recognize it.

$0.02,
Matt

> I am not the guardian of the English lanugage (and neither is =
Wikipedia), I do not see compound nouns in English like as I do speakers =
of other languages use them.
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> About the Wikipedia entry: They do say "often also written as =
filesystem" but so what? Wikipedia says a lot of things...
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> I am kinda ranting on this one because I think names are very =
important.=20
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> Gary
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Niall Pemberton [mailto:niall.pemberton@gmail.com]=20
> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 05:11
> To: Commons Developers List
> Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release Commons IO 2.0 based on RC3
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> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Gary Gregory
> <GGregory@seagullsoftware.com> wrote:
>> I am looking around and I notice set of class names that are IMO =
incorrectly camel-cased: Filesystem* should be FileSystem because =
"filesystem" is not a word in English.
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> Thats true but its often written as one - see wikipedia "A file system
> (often also written as filesystem) is..."
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system
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> ...and I think it gives better emphasis that way.
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> Also JCI was released with the same naming (which IO was initially
> based on, before a complete refactoring):
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>   http://commons.apache.org/jci/apidocs/index.html
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> Niall
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>> Gary Gregory
>>=20
>>=20
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Niall Pemberton [mailto:niall.pemberton@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 21:31
>> To: Commons Developers List
>> Subject: [VOTE] Release Commons IO 2.0 based on RC3
>>=20
>> I have prepared Commons IO 2.0 RC3. The main changes since RC2 are
>> improvements to some tests which were causing intermittent failures =
in
>> Gump & Continuum and JavaDoc improvements. For details about =
Continuum
>> builds/failures, see:
>>   http://people.apache.org/~niallp/io-2.0/IOFailures.html
>>=20
>> The distro is here:
>>   http://people.apache.org/~niallp/io-2.0-rc3/
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>> Release Notes:
>>   http://people.apache.org/~niallp/io-2.0-rc3/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
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>> Site:
>>   http://people.apache.org/~niallp/io-2.0-rc3/site/
>>=20
>> Maven Stuff:
>>   http://people.apache.org/~niallp/io-2.0-rc3/maven/
>>=20
>> Some Notes:
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>> * There is one error on the clirr report - which is a false positive
>> (a generic method that is erased)
>>   http://people.apache.org/~niallp/io-2.0-rc3/site/clirr-report.html
>> * Links to the JavaDoc versions on the site don't work (they will =
when
>> its deployed to the right location)
>>=20
>> Thanks
>>=20
>> Niall
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