> Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:19:09 +0000
> From: Ashley Sanders <[log in to unmask]>
> 
>> After a fair bit of discussion, the SRU Editorial Board has come up
>> with a proposal for adding sorting capabilities to CQL, the query
>> language of SRU.  The proposal (with motivation and examples) is at
>> 	http://zing.z3950.org/cql/sorting.html
>> We welcome comments.
> 
> Can I suggest some consistency with the naming of index
> modifiers. Some are mixtures of lower case and abbreviations, eg
> icase; some are spelt out in full in mixed case, eg missingOmit.

You have a point.  Of course, the problem here as always is the
conflicting drives towards conciseness and explicitness, but I agree
that we should let the same drive win in all the names :-)

> I'd suggest using mixed case spelt out in full for
> all the modifiers, ie:
> 
>     ignoreCase
>     respectCase
>     ascendingOrder
>     descendingOrder
>     missingOmit
>     ...

I'd not be opposed to that resolution.

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