Re: Spell checking identifiers

From	Kaz Kylheku <937-053-0959@kylheku.com>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: Spell checking identifiers
Date	2020-06-24 18:12 +0000
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID	<20-06-014@comp.compilers> (permalink)
References	<20-06-010@comp.compilers>

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On 2020-06-23, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> wrote:
> Dear c.compilers,
>
> While experimenting with Rust, I came across this suggestion.
>
>   --> foo.rs:5:9
>    |
> 5 |     return j; // the variable, not the type.
>    |            ^ help: a local variable with a similar name exists: `i`
>
> Here it is suggesting i where I typed j.  This is the same problem as
> spell checking identifiers with fuzzy matching, so apologies for a po-
> tentially misleading subject.

I don't find these kinds of childish diagnostic messages useful at all.

They have started to appear in GCC also.

The good old "undeclared identifier `j`" requires no update, thanks.

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    Re: Spell checking identifiers gah4@u.washington.edu - 2020-06-23 16:51 -0700
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    Re: Spell checking identifiers Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2020-06-24 20:08 +0000
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