Re: Spell checking identifiers

mac <acolvin@efunct.com>
Thu, 9 Jul 2020 16:07:45 -0000 (UTC)

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From: mac <acolvin@efunct.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 16:07:45 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
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Posted-Date: 09 Jul 2020 13:12:13 EDT

> You might not want J1 and J_one in the same program.


Similarly, some ancient compiler (Euclid?) had case-insensitive lookup, but
required the same capitalization everywhere


This was much more important in the days of batch systems, where compilers
tried to "correct" your code, because it would be a day before you got
another chance. And because student programs couldn't do any damage.



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