Use of abbreviations in scripts

[Martin Baxter]

Mark Smith wrote:
> And this also demonstrates one of the reasons I use the abbreviations 
> that I do :
> my pet typo was always 'crad', whereas even I find it hard to misspell 
> 'cd' !
> 
> Best,
> 
> Mark
> 
> On 17 Oct 2006, at 03:35, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote:
> 
>> At 11:16 AM -0500 10/16/2006, Ken Ray wrote:
>>> On 10/16/06 11:09 AM, "Mark Wieder" <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote:
>>>  > There are many times when I wish I could define "funciton" as an 
>>> alias
>>>>  for "function"...
>>>
>>> Yeah, and "windwo" as an alias for "window"...
>>
>>
>> ...and let us not forget the ever-popular "teh"... ;-)

Well I can, and do, miss-spell "if" - e.g. "fi" or "of". In fact O quite 
iften miss-spell "i".

So it's no surprise that fiedl also causes trouble.

Martin Baxter