| Brad Fitzpatrick | 435bdc5 | 2019-04-16 13:33:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | This page documents the spelling choices that the Go project has made for English words. |
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| 3 | This page is a statement of policy. Do not edit it without approval/discussion. |
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| 5 | Policy: |
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| 7 | * American spellings over British spellings |
| 8 | * **iff** means "if or only iff" (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iff), but we don't use it in public-facing docs (not if it'd show up in exported identifiers in godoc) |
| 9 | * avoid Latin abbreviations in godoc |
| 10 | * use **cancellation** (two ells), not cancelation. See https://golang.org/cl/170060 |
| 11 | * use **canceled** (one ell), not cancelled. |
| 12 | * use **canceling** (one ell), not cancelling. |
| 13 | * use **marshaling**, **marshaled** etc (single ell). See https://golang.org/cl/33017 |
