On Wednesday, 17 July 2013 at 18:47:47 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
On 07/17/2013 01:06 AM, Rob T wrote:
A colleague of mine who has started coding in D sent me an
email to say
how impressed he is by the spell checker in the compiler.
I've been making frequent use out of the spell checker too, and
appreciate this incredibly simple innovation.
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Yeah it's really helpful from time to time.
There was a simple idea to reduce the number of false proposals.
Namely reducing the Levenshtein distance and the search scope
for short variable names.
What really needs improving are the occasional cryptic and
unhelpful compiler error messages. DMD is not alone with this
problem, so I'm not saying DMD is especially bad among compilers,
but no doubt this is an area that can be substantially improved
and would be appreciated greatly.
--rt