[MPlayer-cvslog] r25994 - in trunk: command.c gui/mplayer/widgets.c help/help_mp-en.h input/ar.c input/joystick.c libaf/af_lavcac3enc.c libao2/ao_mpegpes.c libmpcodecs/ad_ffmpeg.c libmpcodecs/ae_lavc.c libmpcodecs/dec_audio.c libmpcodecs/dec_video.c libmpcodecs/vd.c libmpcodecs/vd_ffmpeg.c libmpcodecs/vd_libmpeg2.c libmpcodecs/vd_qtvideo.c libmpcodecs/vd_realvid.c libmpcodecs/vd_zrmjpeg.c libmpcodecs/ve_lavc.c libmpcodecs/ve_qtvideo.c libmpcodecs/ve_xvid4.c libmpcodecs/vf_lavc.c libmpcodecs/vf_lavcdeint.c libmpcodecs/vf_zrmjpeg.c libmpdemux/demux_ogg.c libmpdemux/demux_ty_osd.c libmpdemux/muxer_mpeg.c libmpdemux/stheader.h libvo/jpeg_enc.c libvo/mga_common.c libvo/vo_directx.c libvo/vo_dxr2.c libvo/vo_vesa.c libvo/vo_x11.c libvo/vo_xmga.c libvo/vo_xv.c libvo/x11_common.c m_config.c mencoder.c mp_core.h mp_msg.c mplayer.c stream/stream_radio.c stream/tvi_v4l2.c sub_cc.c

[The Wanderer]

Diego Biurrun wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 09:57:49PM +0100, Roberto Togni wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:23:55 +0100 (CET)
>> diego <subversion at mplayerhq.hu> wrote:
>> 
>> > Log:
>> > typo fix: inited --> initialized
>> > 
>> [...]
>> 
>> What's the reason for this? I dislike it.
>> 
>> inited is perfectly understandable, shorter, harder to mistype and
>> quite widespread (a quick grep in my /usr/local/src found it also
>> outside MPlayer).
> 
> It's still a typo.  I'm sure you can find plenty of typos outside
> MPlayer...

No.

A typo is a mistake - you'll note that it's actually short for
"typographical error". This sort of abbreviation is quite frequently
intentional. It cannot be validly considered a typo, or indeed an error,
in all cases.

In this case the usage of "inited" is probably derived from the
comparatively widespread, and possibly growing, use of "init" as a verb
with the same meaning as its longer form "initialize". You may not
consider the shorter form correct - it doesn't bother me personally,
though on philosophical principle I'd probably have to agree with you -
but it is not automatically a typo.

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