Spell-checking source code (Was: ISO Studies of underscores...)

[Leif Roar Moldskred <rmoldskr@online.no>]

"Mike Bandor" <mbandor@satx.rr.com> writes:

> I was once told by a TRW employee that on one particular project they had a
> coding standard that used underscores in lieu of running the names together.
> One of their "measures" of readability was to take copy of the code, remove
> the underscores, and run it through a spell checker.  If it made it through
> the spell checker, it was deemed "readable".

This touches on one of my pet annoyances with development tools today:
no way to easily spell-check your code. In my opinion, a development
environment should at the very _least_ let you easily spell-check all
the text in comments, and preferably the individual words in variable
and function names (whether the words are separated by mixed case,
hyphens or underscores.)

Unfortunately, nobody else seems to mind. *sighs* Oh well,
spell-checkers are overrated anyway.

-- 
Leif Roar Moldskred