From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ea99940253996e3e X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea99940253996e3e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 108717,ea99940253996e3e X-Google-Attributes: gid108717,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,ea99940253996e3e X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-05 08:05:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp2.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 10:05:21 -0500 From: "William" Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.programming,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada References: <2cfd1a4e.0309252032.3e3c0a1a@posting.google.com> <863cefjy6l.fsf@strudel.futureapps.de> <86ad8i7d1d.fsf_-_@huldreheim.huldreskog.no> <82347202.0310031148.1284a52b@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: Spell-checking source code (Was: ISO Studies of underscores...) Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 10:08:54 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: X-Trace: sv3-iS6cAl3PAZQed5Pjkz+XVOFYmAvHfaMnaPg4oY0CekhapQhOPpGOJBSbQ/nAgMues/F+Alt/EZOvMDH!4aCG4VUjx+f6k47pfnvs1Aojru0LY1K+f7u/46lSL64upcFjdla3vC/0nzGRSXA= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.software-eng:69 comp.programming:400 comp.lang.c++:956 comp.lang.ada:264 Date: 2003-10-05T10:08:54-05:00 List-Id: "Jim Rogers" wrote in message news:82347202.0310031148.1284a52b@posting.google.com... > "William" wrote in message news:... > > Talking to myself here... I occurred to me that its syntax highlighting > > makes spell checking reserved words less necessary - and the syntax > > highlighting can deal with case. -Wm > > Even more to the point -- any compiler should be > able to properly recognize reserved words. > Why use another tool to check what the compiler will also check? Until we got faster machines, one of our builds could take an hour. No fun to have the compiler detect a mispelled word 50 minutes in. (Sure, if everyone did an incremental test build, the problem would be avoided, but...) -Wm