[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2409: last call for options keys consolidation

GRASS GIS trac at osgeo.org
Wed Nov 26 00:33:58 PST 2014


#2409: last call for options keys consolidation
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 Reporter:  martinl               |       Owner:  grass-dev@…              
     Type:  task                  |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  blocker               |   Milestone:  7.0.0                    
Component:  Default               |     Version:  unspecified              
 Keywords:  standardized options  |    Platform:  Unspecified              
      Cpu:  Unspecified           |  
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Comment(by martinl):

 Replying to [comment:33 annakrat]:
 > Replying to [comment:31 glynn]:
 > > Another possibility with regards to abbreviating compound words would
 be to use an upper-case letter (rather than a specific character, such as
 the single quote in the previous example), so backGround_color would work
 like back_ground_color but arguably isn't quite as ugly. Similarly,
 "columnS" doesn't seem as bad as column_s.
 >
 > Please don't do that. GRASS suffers from "too many ways to do the same
 thing", let's not make it worse.

 I would agree with Anna.

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