Long ago when I was working on the ADO.NET framework (the first version), I made a doomed argument that strongly typed DataRows should have their strongly typed container objects pluralized.
I was roundly but jovially made fun of, and everybody had a good laugh about how hard that would be for non-english languages, and all those edge cases like geese, sheep, mices, mooses, etc. I proposed that we would have two versions of Visual Studio – regular and “Zoo Edition”.
Which is one thing I like about Rails – they just did it, and allowed for people to special case the pluralizations that they get wrong.
But how does that relate to Erlang? Luke Galea at ideaforge recently released a library for rails style ‘inflection’ in erlang which replicates the ActiveSupport functionality. Support for pluralization, singularization, tableization, and more.
What shell are you using to get the color for the Erl?