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to: Paul Edwards
from: Bob Lawrence
date: 1995-10-15 08:20:04
subject: `Smart` Compilers

BL> I'm not sure that would help much. Writing code, it's not the
 BL> sound (most of it doesn't even have vowels), it's transposed
 BL> letters or things like StrLng instead of StrsLong.

 PE> The idea of soundex algorithms is to pick up mistyped
 PE> characters, not find out which words are pronounced the same in
 PE> a Yorkshire dialect of English. BFN. Paul.

  As I said... sometimes you intentionally use words with similar
spelling in code. It would drive you mad if the spell checker kept
turning Strings() into String(). I think you need a list of protected
words, plus what you find in the declarations section.

Regards,
Bob
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