I guess I should have said we are keeping it consistently inconsistent,
rather than making it inconsistently consistent. :)

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Brill Pappin <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Chuckle!
>
> Not only that, but its how the rest of the world spells things :)
>
> - Brill
>
> On Jan 27, 1:44 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi!  Thanks for your feedback.
> >
> > android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase.getAttachedDbs() returns
> >
> > > ArrayList instead of List
> >
> > We'll get this fixed.
> >
> > > android.os.AsyncTask onCancelled() uses the UK spelling of the word
> > > where everywhere else in the API, the US spelling variations are
> > > used.  It's not just Canceled vs. Cancelled, but *ize vs. *ise.
> >
> > Yeah we noticed this in the API review.  Unfortunately this *is*
> consistent
> > with the other APIs on AsyncTask (and probably not coincidentally, the
> > standard Java APIs like Future that AsyncTask is implemented on top of).
> :/
> >
> > We decided it was better to keep the AsyncTask APIs self-consistent,
> rather
> > than inconsistently consistent with other Android APIs. :}
> >
> > --
> > Dianne Hackborn
> > Android framework engineer
> > [email protected]
> >
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> and
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