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Johann,

> So, without going through the source of rustc to find out, I'm curious
> about what general techniques people use to make this work?  In particu-
> lar the Damerau–Levenshtein distance algorithm is not appropriate for
> dictionary lookups, as far as I know.

More than you probably wanted to know:
http://www.coding-guidelines.com/cbook/sent792.pdf

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Derek M. Jones
blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com

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