Update Editorial Style Guide: DRep vs dRep

[katomm]

• Add suggestion and reasoning for writing DRep vs dRep
• Add "hard fork" (two words)

[rphair]

Agree with the change & the rationale. I think @Ryun1 who does a lot of writing & standardisation in this area will also be happy with it & we can note to watch related CIPs for conformation to this suggestion.

[katomm]

Add "hard fork" (two words) based on comments on X

[katomm]

I'm summoning @Hornan7 and @Crypto2099 to add to this discussion.

[Hornan7]

In my opinion, there are two perspectives on capitalization in this context. From a codification standpoint, using dRep is common because certain identifiers must start with a lowercase letter, especially in programming environments where this is a requirement.ex : dRepVotingThreshold,dRepActivity etc.

However, in documentation, CIPs, or other user-facing materials, it makes more sense to capitalize "Delegated Representative" as "DRep." This distinction enhances clarity and formality, making it easier for readers to understand the context without being constrained by machine-readable formats.

Overall, this approach ensures both technical accuracy in code and effective communication in documentation.

[Crypto2099]

I believe you have planted yourself firmly in the middle of the dreaded Variable Naming Convention debate, second only in brutality and death toll behind the infamous Spaces vs. Tabs debate!

Now, what you (and my esteemed colleague Mr. Hornan) seem to be arguing in favor of is PascalCase. Which is named after Pascal, who was a famous mathematician but also a programming language. These two facts alone give strong weight to the argument in favor of PascalCase and canonizing the term DRep and DApp.

However! The alternative is the much beloved and more frequently used in "modern day" programming: camelCase. As Mr. Hornan agrees, this is seen prolifically throughout the Cardano ecosystem in the naming of parameters and the ledger specification itself!

You can see here that the answer is nearly as clear as mud!

But wait, there's more! Given that camelCase is more frequently used by the technical minded among us (buncha nerds), there is one further argument... that being: it is called camelCase because it resembles the humps on a camel, the Cardano Summit is being hosted in Dubai, where I rode a camel last year. Ergo, it should, without doubt and unequivocally be chosen as the de facto standard used for all abbreviations throughout the ecosystem uniformly.

I rest my case.

[weqanhet]

LGTM