Problem/Motivation
The spelling of the word writeable/writable is not consistent in core. Either spelling is correct.
Proposed resolution
Core uses 'writeable' 22 times and 'writable' 154 times.
The PHP standard library has a function named is_writable(), which Core uses 36 times; and an alias of that function named is_writeable(), which core does not use (as of commit 3834d60f1a).
Given that 'writable' already occurs more often than 'writeable', it makes sense for us change to 'writable' in this patch.
Out of scope
Drupal core also defines three functions with the less-used spelling 'writeable'...
\Drupal\Component\PhpStorage\PhpStorageInterface::writeable()\Drupal\Component\PhpStorage\FileStorage::writeable()\Drupal\Component\PhpStorage\FileReadOnlyStorage::writeable()
... (and there are some tests for these functions which use the incorrect name) ... but changing these would break backwards compatibility, and is therefore out-of-scope for this patch.
Remaining tasks
Write a patch- Review by searching latest code with
grep -r 'writeable' /path/to/core
User interface changes
All instances of writeable change to writable
API changes
N/A
Data model changes
N/A
Release notes snippet
N/A
Original report by gnikolovski
The spelling of the word writeable/writable is not consistent in core. Core use ‘writeable’ 22 times and ‘writable’ 154 times. (#9)
Possible resolutions:
- Change all instances of ‘writeable’ to ‘writable’
- Change all instances of ‘writable’ to ‘writeable’
- Leave as-is. Either spelling is correct.