Formal comment #216 (defect)

Capitalize "Boolean."
Reported by: 	Arthur A. Gleckler
Version: 	5.92

In <4.6 Boolean values> and throughout, capitalize "Boolean" when
referring to that data type in English text. Java's capitalization-
based distinction between the primitive and non-primitive names for
that type, among other things, has made it easy to forget that Boolean
is named after a person, and is therefore a proper noun.


RESPONSE:

The word is usually capitalized when used as an adjective,
e.g. Boolean logic, but not so much when used as a noun, and
especially not when used as the name of a data type in a programming
language unless the language capitalizes the names of all (or all
basic) types.  See e.g.

http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/boolean.html
http://cristal.inria.fr/ICFP2001/prog-contest/task.html
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/icfp/task.htm
http://www.lfcs.inf.ed.ac.uk/software/polyml/docs/Basis2.html
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa691320(vs.71).aspx
http://phpro.org/en/language.types.boolean.html

Therefore the formal comment's suggestion will not be adopted.