[ANSI-Smalltalk] What's in a name?

[Eliot Miranda]

Looks like I'm the only one who prefers the singular.  So people should go
with the plural.

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Andres Valloud <andres.valloud at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have some preference for the plural name as well.  Hopefully we can
> resolve this one quickly :).
>
> Andres.
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 3:22 AM, Bruce Badger <bwbadger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 22/02/2008, Steve Wart <steve.wart at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > It also makes more sense if instead of one monolithic standard we
> > prefer
> > > different standards documents for different parts of Smalltalk.
> >
> > I expect that, following Paolo's proposed process, we will produce
> > many RFC-like specifications.  I hope that the formal ANSI work will
> > be substantially based on the work that we do using our open and
> > transparent process, but I don't expect the ANSI project to be able to
> > absorb all of the things we have specified as soon as we produce it,
> > and some specifications may be considered to go beyond what ought be
> > included in a formal standard and so may never make it into the formal
> > ANSI standard ... but they are still valuable.
> >
> > In short I think we'll have quite a few bits and pieces over time that
> > will all funnel into something we might call "a standard" (singular),
> > but at any one time I suspect that we will have many active bits.
> >
> > ... so I like "Smalltalk Standards Project" (plural).
> >
> > FWIW.
> >
> > Shall we have a vote? :-)
> >
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