...apparently for some Seaside developers in the USA!
Yesterday I stumbled over the method "initialRequest:", which is implemented in a few classes. Being fairly capable of reading English, I thought that some initial request was processed. When looking at the code I found out that this was completely wrong.
In reality, the receiver is initialized with a request. Which is something very different, of course.
Now, it is indisputable that most US Americans have castrated Shakespeare's originally beautiful language to the absolute minimum and have deformed it to a horribly harsh pronunciation.
However, not seeing the difference between "initial" and "initialize" is what we in Europe would call a Freudian mistake, which leads the Seaside user into a completely wrong direction.
Therefore, I am strongly recommending these language-poor developers to more carefully select their method names and to have better somebody look at the chosen names who is still capable of using Shakespeare's language properly.
Otherwise one must assume "poor language - poor thinking"!
My proposal: Please change this misleading method name to something like "initializeFromRequest:", which really expresses what is done.
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