From: nathaniel@...
Date: 2002-12-20T01:23:53+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Test::Unit 0.1.5

Hal E. Fulton [mailto:hal9000@hypermetrics.com] wrote:

> From: <nathaniel@NOSPAMtalbott.ws>
> > 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.)

Which was, of course, debated back and forth ad nauseum on the list not
to long ago... not to mention the longstanding debate going on in my
head :-)

Suffice it to say, the names are stabilized, and will not change again,
at least not until Test::Unit runs under Rite ;-)


> 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." :) 

Programmers definitely use English in a very opportunistic way. My dad
regularly bemoans the fact that the geeks have taken all the words and
redefined them to mean something he doesn't understand. :-)


Nathaniel

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