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

["Jakob Bieling" <netsurf@gmy.net>]

"Leif Roar Moldskred" <rmoldskr@online.no> wrote in message
news:86zngh5oct.fsf@huldreheim.huldreskog.no...
> "Steve" <nospam_steved94@comcast.net> writes:
>
> > If you happen to be use GNAT (GNU Ada), the compiler does do some degree
of
> > spell checking.
> >
> > gcc -c dointxor.adb
> > dointxor.adb:30:28: "b_valu" is undefined
> > dointxor.adb:30:28: possible misspelling of "b_value"
> > gnatmake: "dointxor.adb" compilation error
>
> That's not really spell-checking though - it doesn't check "b_value" to
see
> if "value" is a proper word in English.


    But it is that kind of word-matching I would personally like to see in
more compilers (specifically C++ compilers).

    I do agree with Kevin Morenski (news:3f7df3af_2@nntp2.nac.net) that a
real spell-checker for source code is not practicable. You said that the
spell-checker would just have to ask you whether to ignore it or how else to
proceed. Have you thought about how annoying 100s or even 1000s of those
messages boxes, asking how to proceed, will be when compiling already
existing source with this spell-checker?

regards
--
jb

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