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From gpc-owner@gnu.de Mon Feb 17 08:11:58 2003 Received: from mail.ncifcrf.gov ([129.43.100.100]) by adele.gerwinski.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18kfRR-0000o0-00 for <gpc@gnu.de>; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 08:11:53 +0100 Received: from strawberry.ncifcrf.gov (strawberry.NCIFCRF.GOV [129.43.6.74]) by mail.ncifcrf.gov (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h1H7Ae821777 for <gpc@gnu.de>; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 02:10:40 -0500 (EST) Received: (from toms@localhost) by strawberry.ncifcrf.gov (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id CAA09203 for gpc@gnu.de; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 02:10:39 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Schneider <toms@ncifcrf.gov> Message-Id: <200302170710.CAA09203@strawberry.ncifcrf.gov> Subject: Re: gpc-20030209 (capitalization error message) In-Reply-To: <E18kclN-0001P0-00@adele.gerwinski.de> from "gpc-owner@gnu.de" at "Feb 17, 2003 05:20:17 am" To: gpc@gnu.de (gpc) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 02:10:39 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL34 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archive-Number: 200302/154 X-Sequence-Number: 1773 > So, what's best now, "varying capitalisation", "varying capitals", > "mismatched caps"? > "varying capitalisation" would be my choice > "varying letter-cases" may be clearer, and it avoids > the ambiguity on "cases" that started the discussion > Keep it short. Maybe "varying id letter case: <oldid> <thisid>"? > Perhaps "mismatched <oldid> <thisid>"? It has to be CLEAR which means things like 'caps' won't do because it is not obvious that this is an abbreviation. How about straightforward English: The capitalization of the definition <original> does not match <current>. or more tightly: Capitalization of definition <original> does not match <current>. This way there would be no question as to what the message means. I think that a few extra bytes for clarity is worthwhile. Tom Dr. Thomas D. Schneider National Cancer Institute Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Biology Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201 toms@ncifcrf.gov permanent email: toms@alum.mit.edu (use only if first address fails) http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/
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