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  1. OMG Issue

UMLR — Inconsistent use of (s)

  • Key: UMLR-593
  • Legacy Issue Number: 17807
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Oracle ( Dave Hawkins)
  • Summary:

    Sometimes a property with upper bound > 1 is referred to as having "Elements", for example, and sometimes "Element(s)". Dependency::client, Dependency::supplier, DirectedRelationship::source, DirectedRelationship::target all use the latter whereas ElementElement::ownedComments and Constraint::constrainedElements use the former. I'm sure there are many other examples. I think the former is better stylistically. (For what it's worth, Oracle's corporate documentation standards regard the use of parenthesized plurals as bad practice.)

    Proposed Resolution:

    Consistently use plurals rather than plural(s).

  • Reported: UML 2.4.1 — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT