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Any flavour you likeAny flavour you likePosted Aug 14, 2003 11:12 UTC (Thu) by cross (guest, #13601)Parent article: Any flavour you like
I've never understood this obsession with decreeing one country's spelling over all others. Occasionally it flares up where I work too (where English is a foreign language). As I explain it, people speak in different accents / dialects depending on where they were brought up and naturally that tends to spill over into their writing too. It's like being told that noone with, say, a Welsh accent should be allowed to write code. Even if you dictate that only American spelling is allowable, what about issues like "lite" vs. "light"? This is a road you don't want to start down because it has no end.
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Any flavour you like Posted Aug 15, 2003 3:54 UTC (Fri) by cpeterso (subscriber, #305) [Link] but it does make sense that a word should be spelled CONSISTENTLY, regardless of which ever spelling is chosen. Using multiple spellings ("flavour" and "flavor") makes grepping difficult. On LKML, Linus gave a real example of a kernel data type that includes the word "flavour", so this affects more than just comments or printfs.
Any flavour you like Posted Aug 15, 2003 17:15 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] There are some great practical arguments (previously mentioned) for picking a language for the source code and sticking with it.But it's also a perfectly valid argument that people -- many of us -- are bothered by writing that doesn't follow rules, such as by switching from one language to another randomly. We don't have to explain why it bothers us; it's an emotional thing. That's why all serious publications have detailed style guidelines that include things such as which of various spellings of a word are used.
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