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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 10:21:03 +1100
Subject: Re: [OT] spelling colour / color was Re: Toggle
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On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
>
>> colour in a programme doesn't seem right.
>
> Perhaps ironically, there are 52 uses of 'colour' in the stdlib, all but 4
> in idlelib, and most of those in one file.  I just changed all except in the
> one file.

I agree, although I wouldn't make the change without good reason
(avoiding code churn). The last time I used "COLOUR" in any code was
in Q-Basic; I had my own subroutine of that name, which did some
processing and then used the built-in COLOR command. In fact, the only
reason I used the "non-program" spelling of the word was because BASIC
doesn't allow shadowing of commands.

(I don't even remember what the COLOUR command did. Probably something
like coping with red-block - when a CRT screen starts to die and the
red channel isn't functional. Hacks to deal with faults, that's what
we do!)

ChrisA