Re: "Near Miss" error handling?

Bruce Ediger <eballen1@qwest.net>
31 Mar 2001 02:36:33 -0500

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From: Bruce Ediger <eballen1@qwest.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 31 Mar 2001 02:36:33 -0500
Organization: Runciter Associates
References: 01-03-135
Keywords: parse, errors, editor
Posted-Date: 31 Mar 2001 02:36:33 EST
Originator: bediger@qwest.net

Gwyn Judd <gwyn@thislove.dyndns.org> wrote:
>compiler. basically when the compiler comes across an identifier it
>hasn't seen before, it will go through the list of known identifiers
>and try to determine which is the closest so it can then make a
>hopefully helpful suggestion on how to correct the error.


You might want to look at Udi Manber's "agrep" - a quick Google search
seems to indicate that "agrep" comes with a lot of Linux
distributions, and Manber wrote a paper covering the "agrep"
algorithm. I think the paper is one of the files available from
http://webglimpse.org/pubs/, but I can't tell which one.



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