Following up on my own message... talking to yourself is a bad sign, right? :) On 2008 Jul 13, at 11:21, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
Huh? Edit distance is a good way to handle typoes --- and, while some people have asserted that "we don't need that because I can see it already", most people *don't* see it right away.
It occurs to me to mention, in the vein of "over-friendly-ing is bad", the example of WATFOR/WATFIV: even a well thought out typo detection facility can badly obscure things. But as long the proposal is to conditionalize these on a compile flag, that isn't too much of an issue. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH