Re: [RFC] Casing of acronyms in class and method names

On 5-4-2024 19:48, Niels Dossche wrote:

On 05/04/2024 19:00, Tim Düsterhus wrote:

I've just written up the follow-up RFC to my previous “Casing of acronyms in class and method names” thread and I'm officially opening up the discussion period for it. Please find the following links for your convenience: RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/class-naming-acronyms Previous ML discussion: https://externals.io/message/120959#120959 Related discussion in PHP-FIG: https://github.com/php-fig/per-coding-style/issues/83

Tim, In the "It decreases readability" section you make a sweeping statement about accessibility, but don't back that up with research. Please back your statement up as based on my understanding, the opposite is true. Case in point: if written in all caps, screenreaders will spell the characters out - think HTML -. If written in Mixed case, screenreaders will try to pronounce the word, making acronyms and other abbreviations very hard to understand for anyone using a screenreader. This is something which has repeatedly been pointed out, for instance at conferences regarding conference acronym hashtags, like #DPC. So, I'd be very interested to see your statement backed up by actual research and invite you to look into this a little deeper.

I support this proposal. If accepted, I'll make the necessary changes to ext-dom and ext-xsl to comply with the new policy. Niels: just wondering what changes you are referring to ? The RFC explicitly states "Existing class and method names in released versions are not affected"... ?

Smile, Juliette