Item14103: INCLUDEs is (not) a Wiki Word

I was surprised to note that FW auto-linked INCLUDEs as if it's a WikiWord.

According to System.WikiWord:

A WikiWord consists of two or more words with initial capitals, run together.

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Note that acronyms are also auto-linked, but only if the topic already exists.

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Syntax of a WikiWord

• Uppercase letter(s)
• Lowercase letter(s) or numbers(s)
• Uppercase letter(s)
• Optional lowercase or uppercase letter(s) or number(s)

The string INCLUDEs does not consist of two or more words with initial capitals, run together. It does not meet the Syntax of a WikiWord. It is not an acronym. It is not the name of an existing topic in the Tasks web.

-- VickiBrown - 29 Jun 2016

Seems to be a breakage in the handling of "plural" linking. Plurals of wikiwords are automatically linked to the singular if it exists. However ACRONYM notes:

Unlike WikiWords, plural Acronyms are not automatically linked to the singular topic.

-- GeorgeClark - 30 Jun 2016

Tracking the regular expression backwards,

$regex{abbrevRegex} = qr/[$regex{upperAlpha}]{$abbrevLength,}s?\b/;

matches plural Acronyms (core calls them abbreviations), going all the way back to the initial import from TWiki in 2008.

I think that this is probably more likely a very old documentation bug (Acronyms can be plural) than a core rendering bug.

-- GeorgeClark - 30 Jun 2016

Interesting! (and unexpected, especially given that INCLUDE is not an acronym and one rarely runs across plural acronyms). But I'll take it.

-- VickiBrown - 30 Jun 2016

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