Goodbye stsMLXEditor

Peter Haworth pete at lcsql.com
Thu Sep 3 01:40:36 EDT 2015


The spell check algorithm catches that.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015, 7:38 PM Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote:

> On 09/02/2015 07:10 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
> > Hi Mark,
> > You sent me that a few months ago when I was writing my script and I
> > incorporated it.
>
> You don't really expect me to remember things, do you?
>
> >
> > Not sure what other things might make it a bad idea,
>
> The tl;dr is that by letting an algorithm declare variables instead of
> doing the work of finding the missing ones manually you're actually
> compounding the problem. It makes it harder to spot the accidental
> errors at runtime.
>
> If you are editing a script and type 'tVar' instead of 'tVar1' you'll
> have a hard time finding the error after tVar1 is legitimized.
>
> --
>   Mark Wieder
>   ahsoftware at gmail.com
>
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