Re: Spell checking identifiers

From	gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: Spell checking identifiers
Date	2020-06-24 13:08 -0700
Organization	Compilers Central
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On Tuesday, June 23, 2020 at 8:40:38 PM UTC+2, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson

> 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.

GCC's GNAT front-end for Ada does such checks (search for "GNAT.Spelling_Checker").
The source code (at least versions I've found on the Web) does not refer to a
specific algorithm.

A few examples of detection:

hac-parser-expressions.adb:129:35: "Symst" is undefined
hac-parser-expressions.adb:129:35: possible misspelling of "Symset"

hac-parser-expressions.adb:129:35: "Sym_set" is undefined
hac-parser-expressions.adb:129:35: possible misspelling of "Symset"

hac-parser-expressions.adb:129:35: "Sysmet" is undefined
hac-parser-expressions.adb:129:35: possible misspelling of "Symset"

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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 "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk.invalid> - 2020-06-24 11:02 +0100
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    Re: Spell checking identifiers Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2020-06-24 20:08 +0000
      Re: Spell checking identifiers Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2020-06-25 21:44 +0800
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