X-Received: by 10.224.17.140 with SMTP id s12mr18841848qaa.3.1362426316141; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:45:16 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.163.41 with SMTP id yf9mr696423igb.3.1362426316059; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:45:16 -0800 (PST) Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!dd2no7024410qab.0!news-out.google.com!q17ni601qal.0!nntp.google.com!dd2no7024400qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 11:45:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <093b4a9b-e2d8-4fdd-bc13-1eae629d9289@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.28.149.29; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.28.149.29 References: <38e873e0-549a-417c-b45b-9b9d52f65880@googlegroups.com> <51306447$0$1206$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr> <90683973-c8ab-4c79-b132-d6f45e939a69@googlegroups.com> <51345776$0$1385$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr> <093b4a9b-e2d8-4fdd-bc13-1eae629d9289@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <1d69a5ef-418a-478f-9acf-4a3e135de088@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Boolean From: Lew Injection-Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:45:16 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Lines: 24 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:22714 Lew wrote: > JLP wrote: >> Lew a =E9crit : >>> JLP wrote: >>>> Nota : Class names must start with a capital letter=20 >>> Not "must", "should". >=20 >> Yes Lew. English is not my native language and i often confound must and >> should. >=20 > Native language or not, anyone in the programming world should be familia= r with the=20 > distinction between these terms, as it is a major part of specification d= ocumentation,=20 > e.g., all RFCs. >=20 > This is not a question of knowing English but of knowing technical terms. To help you with this, in technical language "must" is like "il faut que". = It is mandatory. "Should" is more like "devoir". It is an obligation, but not a necessity. --=20 Lew