Re: title caps and API documentation (was: English 101)

Subject: Re: title caps and API documentation (was: English 101)
From: David Castro <thejavaguy -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 14:53:57 -0400


In my opinion, you absolutely need to use the correct capitalization
for the API call. I frequently check documentation just for the name
of a method that I know how to use, but have forgotten the name of. If
I go to the TOC to find it and see it capitalized at the beginning,
that's exactly how I'm going ot put it in my code, which will cause a
compiler error.

-David Castro
thejavaguy -at- gmail -dot- com

On 5/23/05, Monica Cellio <cellio -at- pobox -dot- com> wrote:
> Sometimes, in programming
> guides (or discussions of examples), I have section headings that contain
> the names of functions that begin with lowercase letters. It is
> technically incorrect (and misleading) to capitalize them, so if I'm using
> headline style I might end up with something like "Using refreshData under
> High Latency", which looks weird.

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References:
title caps and API documentation (was: English 101): From: Monica Cellio

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