Canceled vs. Cancelled

[novemberborn]

We'll have to pick one and stick to it. There's some nice background at http://grammarist.com/spelling/cancel/.

@domenic any leanings to one or the other in ES-discuss?

[domenic]

Not that I can see. I've seen "cancelled" the state and "AlreadyCanceled" as an error.

Precedent from other implementations might be the strongest argument. WinJS seems to use cancelled.

[novemberborn]

Dojo uses canceled, which I picked as it was the shortest one.

[juandopazo]

As a non native speaker, I think I've never written canceled, only cancelled.

[ForbesLindesay]

I think we can safely settle on cancellation/cancelled. It's the correct, native English spelling and I think even the Americans might spell it with two 'l's.

[novemberborn]

I think even the Americans might spell it with two 'l's.

It's a mix. NYT shows an order of magnitude difference, preferring "canceled": https://www.google.com/search?q=%22canceled%22%20site:nytimes.com vs https://www.google.com/search?q=%22cancelled%22%20site:nytimes.com.

[juandopazo]

Google Trends show an inclination for "cancelled":
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=cancelled%2C%20canceled&cmpt=q

[novemberborn]

Sure, but that's global. I'm presuming words in computer languages default to American English.

That said, color wins over colour, and behavior over behaviour, so if cancelled wins over canceled perhaps that's enough.

[ludekstepan]

Please see a Microsoft implementation of Promise.cancel: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br211667.aspx

[spankyj]

In WinJS we use 'Canceled' https://github.com/winjs/winjs/blob/master/src/js/base/promise.js#L12. We had a long debate on an internal alias years ago and settled on that.

[ludekstepan]

In cases like this, I would stick to forms with less characters.