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Re: Misspelling Can Bite You

From "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: Misspelling Can Bite You
Date 2012-02-04 13:21 -0700
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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 ...

-Mel Smith



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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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