From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-12-20T01:18:17+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Test::Unit 0.1.5

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From: <nathaniel@NOSPAMtalbott.ws>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: [ANN] Test::Unit 0.1.5


> Lyle Johnson [mailto:lyle@users.sourceforge.net] wrote:
> 
> > I don't see it explicitly stated in the ChangeLog, but has 
> > TestCase#tear_down likewise been renamed to TestCase#teardown?
> 
> No. Tear down is definitely two words, while setup could be one or two.
> Plus the fact that tear_down is used a lot less often.

Hmm. Do you use it as a noun (in English, I mean)? Do you
hyphenate it? (The difference between "set up" and "setup"
is, of course, verb vs. noun.)

I can see where either of these might be considered correct:
"The tear-down of the system occurred without incident."
"The teardown of the system occurred without incident."

This, I think, would not be:
"The tear down of the system occurred without incident."

And obviously as a verb it would HAVE to be two non-hyphenated
words.

But where English fights computer science, the former will 
always be the loser. AOP people seem to use the plural 
"advices" rather than "advice" or "pieces of advice." :) 

Cheers,
Hal