Document spelling of "lowercase" and "uppercase"

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Matt Kraai wrote:

> In the GCC tree, "lowercase" and "uppercase" are about 3 times
> more common than "lower case" and "upper case", and 10 times more
> common than "upper-case" and "lower-case."  The following patch
> documents this preference.

Have you checked with style manuals?  The procedure for deciding
preferences isn't just to see what is used, but to consider what is best;  
as this isn't jargon, external references may indicate what is considered
good English.  (The Chicago Manual of Style was used in the discussion
leading to "nonzero".)

There are a couple of coding style issues that were decided but not yet
documented in the table for that in codingconventions.html: spacing for
function prototypes (after PARAMS is removed) and around string
concatenation:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-05/msg01498.html

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-06/msg00023.html (agreed style was 
a single space in prototypes)

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk