Rule proposal: name-dialect

[Richienb]

Description

Enforce consistent dialect (Commonweath/British or American) for function and variable names

Fail

When ['error', 'american']:

const myColour = 'red'';

When ['error', 'commonwealth']:

const myColor = 'red'';

Pass

When ['error', 'american']:

const myColor = 'red'';

When ['error', 'commonwealth']:

const myColour = 'red'';

Proposed rule name

name-dialect

Additional Info

No response

[fisker]

I like the idea, but may it can be done by spellcheck?

[sindresorhus]

I think a spellcheck will be too annoying for variable names. It will have too many false-positives and words it doesn't know. It's easier to manually define a list of common spelling inconsistencies. We could reuse the machinery from prevent-abbreviations.

[fregante]

From a "support" point of view, this should probably be added if there's a short and complete list of such words, otherwise you'll end up having to tweak it regularly via "feature requests" issues.

[silverwind]

I like the idea, but may it can be done by spellcheck?

Most spellcheckers would probably have both variants pass. Also, many of them are a pain to set up because they tend to have too many false-positives (I use misspell specifically because it has pretty much zero false-positives).

So I do support this proposal, I assume the list will be pretty short.