[comp.sys.atari.st.tech] Setpallete spelling

cliff@jarthur.claremont.edu (Clifford Stein) (04/23/91)

Is Setpallete the standard spelling for the sepalette routine?  Sozobon C
drove me up the wall because it took me some time to find out the function
call was mispelled (they spelled it "Setpallete" instead of "Setpalette"
which I think be correct).  Anyway, I just found that GCC1.39 spells it
"Setpallete" as well.  What's the deal?  My books refer to the call as
"Setpalette," and palette is spelled palette.  I haven't a clue as to what a
pallete is.  I went into my osbind.h files and fixed the entries, though
maybe I should change it back if others' programs are going to puke on my
computer.

What's up?  

--Cliff

johns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Conan the Barbarian) (04/23/91)

In article <11851@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> cliff@jarthur.claremont.edu (Clifford Stein) writes:
>[is it Setpallete or Setpalette?]

	Abacus Internals spells it Setpalette.  (btw, palette is the proper
spelling of the word, Webster says)  I don't have my Lattice C 5 manuals
handy, but I remember reading that they deliberately mispelled theirs (they
call it Setpallete if I recall correctly) because they want to remain 
compatible with the original Atari bindings.  Much as I dislike the seemingly
slipshod original bindings, I would leave them that way so that if you
distribute your code, everyone else does not have to change your code or
their libraries.

-- 
John Schmitt
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