Timeline for How would you implement an auto-correct feature for misspelled class attributes?
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| Apr 8 at 3:12 | comment | added | Karl Knechtel | Do you want the correction to be specific to underscores? Or should it also be able to pick up other common-sense typos (single character errors, transpositions...)? Aside from that, what about users who don't want the compiler to apply such corrections (since it denies them the opportunity to verify)? | |
| Apr 5 at 23:05 | comment | added | Barmar | Do you really need to do this in the language? This is something that should be in the editor, not the language. | |
| Apr 5 at 15:49 | comment | added | Bergi | Please remove all those horizontal lines, they make the question really hard to read. | |
| Apr 5 at 9:16 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Apr 5 at 5:00 | history | edited | Michael Homer♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 5 at 2:07 | answer | added | Michael Homer♦ | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 5 at 1:43 | comment | added | kaya3 |
The only sane reason to check for this is to give suggested completions which are robust to misspellings (e.g. if the user writes foo.ascii_ then .asciiletters is still offered as a suggestion), or suggested fixes in error messages (e.g. if the user writes foo.ascii_letters, the error message says "no attribute named ascii_letters, did you mean asciiletters?"). Actually compiling a misspelled attribute as if it had been spelled correctly is dangerous; it creates a hazard in case a new attribute is added later with the other name. Fixing typos is easy; fixing bugs like that is hard.
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| Apr 5 at 1:24 | comment | added | Michael Homer♦ | When you say "misspelled" class attributes in the title, are you referring specifically to these surplus/omitted underscores in their names only, or to misspellings more broadly? | |
| S Apr 5 at 1:14 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Apr 5 at 1:14 | history | asked | Samuel Muldoon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |