[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #58134: Use correct plural of status

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#58134: Use correct plural of status
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 Reporter:  Presskopp     |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Text Changes  |    Version:
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:
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 Core uses a variable named **$stati** (10 times to be found, in 3 files),
 but that's not the correct plural form of '**status**', neither in
 english, nor in latin or elsewhere. So I plead to change it to
 **$statuses**. While there seems to be no decent rule for variable names,
 so technically the variable could be named $stsii or whatever, still we
 are called to not
 {{{
 "abbreviate variable names unnecessarily; let the code be unambiguous and
 self-documenting."
 }}}
 see https://developer.wordpress.org/coding-standards/wordpress-coding-
 standards/php/


 Also, as we all know, "**Code is Poetry**", isn't it? Now you could argue
 poetry has some freedoms, but I strongly believe it should use correct
 grammar, at least in this case.

 So I may have convinced you finally of that one, but there's one more
 issue:

 There's also a function
 {{{
 get_post_stati()
 }}}

 see https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_post_stati/

 c'mon, let's rename it to **get_post_statuses**, while we're on it.

 You may think this is petty, but it gave me some confusion and after all
 it's just wrong. Let's get rid of an usage of a plural form which doesn't
 exist.

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