Re: Misspelling Can Bite You

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From	Dr J R Stockton <reply1205@merlyn.demon.co.uk>
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Subject	Re: Misspelling Can Bite You
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In comp.lang.javascript message <9p5i9vFn1kU1@mid.individual.net>, Sat,
4 Feb 2012 13:21:14, Mel Smith <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> posted:

>Dr. J said:
>
>> Code could be added to pick out cases where two adjacent words are
>> unreasonably similar.
>
>
>Dr J and Gene:
>
>    This morning I was caught (and mislead) by the following set of two
>statements:
>
>    var rgn = document.getElementById("iselectrgn") ;
>    var rgnopts = rgn.getElementsByTagname("option") ;
>
>    Because I *thought* I had checked the statements thoroughly, I looked
>everywhere *after* this set, and finally went back and checked them again
>letter-by-letter, and then ...

Readily found by Firefox/Opera/Safari Error Console, Chrome JavaScript
Console, and by an IE8 pop-up, though.

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Misspelling Can Bite You Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-02-02 14:02 -0800
  Re: Misspelling Can Bite You "Richard Cornford" <Richard@litotes.demon.co.uk> - 2012-02-03 01:37 +0000
    Re: Misspelling Can Bite You Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-02-02 18:09 -0800
    Re: Misspelling Can Bite You Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-02-03 04:15 +0100
  Re: Misspelling Can Bite You Dr J R Stockton <reply1205@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2012-02-03 22:49 +0000
    Re: Misspelling Can Bite You "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2012-02-04 13:21 -0700
      Re: Misspelling Can Bite You Dr J R Stockton <reply1205@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2012-02-05 16:59 +0000
        Re: Misspelling Can Bite You "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2012-02-06 10:28 -0700
          Re: Misspelling Can Bite You Dr J R Stockton <reply1206@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2012-02-07 21:54 +0000

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