To be clear, my tongue was firmly in my cheek for that last suggestion, but that doesn't seem to travel too well over SMTP. And the myriad smileys which adorned my initial message seem to have been similarly lost.
3/10 must try harder (Smylers, well done on avoiding the past participle of "spell".) On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 11:55:07AM +0100, Smylers wrote: > Paul Johnson writes: > > > - The Logic namespace looks like a mess, but I think this module would > > fit better in there: Logic::Minimize > > - The correct spelling is Logic::Minimise > > UK English allows both -ize and -ise endings on many verbs*; USA English > only has -ize. So picking the one that's valid in both makes more sense. > > There are plenty of cases (like ‘colour’/‘color’) where UK and USA > spellings are disjoint and you just have to pick one which will be > ‘wrong’ somewhere, but this isn't one of those cases. > > Smylers > > * I believe -ize was the original UK form, in use at the point when the > USA forked English. The UK later took on -ise as an alternative, > influenced by French, but the USA didn't cherry-pick that patch to > their branch. > > Oxford dictionaries use the -ize spellings in headwords and list -ise > as acceptable alternatives; other UK dictionaries tend to do it > t'other way round, but all allow both. > http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/minimize > > -- > http://twitter.com/Smylers2 > -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net
