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So I'm coding along, and often I type in Coors instead of Colors by mistake. Also, how many times have you accidentaly created a new word unseen by man before and gone ahead and used it as a class name or identifier? :laugh: Jim
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So I'm coding along, and often I type in Coors instead of Colors by mistake. Also, how many times have you accidentaly created a new word unseen by man before and gone ahead and used it as a class name or identifier? :laugh: Jim
A programmer that worked on some code I later had occasion to maintain had spelled "delimiter" incorrectly as "delimeter". Instead of fixing the error, I commented the code like this: "Delimeter: noun, usually refers to the standard length of a submarine sandwhich, typically 11.78 inches." ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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So I'm coding along, and often I type in Coors instead of Colors by mistake. Also, how many times have you accidentaly created a new word unseen by man before and gone ahead and used it as a class name or identifier? :laugh: Jim
I often get date and data wrong. This week I've been working with a Linen database. And I accidently called all my documentation line rather than linen. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^] -- modified at 10:50 Friday 3rd February, 2006
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Same here... and not always as "
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So I'm coding along, and often I type in Coors instead of Colors by mistake. Also, how many times have you accidentaly created a new word unseen by man before and gone ahead and used it as a class name or identifier? :laugh: Jim
I invarably set my booleans to flase instead of false. BTW does the frequency of typing Coors increase towards the end of the day or the end of the week? If so then you might have a problem :beer: :) Graham "We've got to downsize our sloppiness overload" Gus Hedges on Drop the Dead Donkey
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I mistyped a new colleague's name once when I was showing him his new login. Wakeman was what I should have typed, but somehow an extra n crept in :-O -- modified at 11:35 Friday 3rd February, 2006
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So I'm coding along, and often I type in Coors instead of Colors by mistake. Also, how many times have you accidentaly created a new word unseen by man before and gone ahead and used it as a class name or identifier? :laugh: Jim
for(int i=0; i<rows; ++i) for(int j=0; j<cols; ++i) { ... }
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Tree in C# || Fold With Us! || sighist -- modified at 11:41 Friday 3rd February, 2006 -
So I'm coding along, and often I type in Coors instead of Colors by mistake. Also, how many times have you accidentaly created a new word unseen by man before and gone ahead and used it as a class name or identifier? :laugh: Jim
I always rename misspelled variables. Call me anal. :) That said, the built-in refactoring in VS2005 makes renaming anything much, much easier and far less error prone. :cool:
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for(int i=0; i<rows; ++i) for(int j=0; j<cols; ++i) { ... }
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Tree in C# || Fold With Us! || sighist -- modified at 11:41 Friday 3rd February, 2006:doh: done that many times too. If I'm doing embedded for loops, I find it less error prone to use more descriptive indexer variable names.
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So I'm coding along, and often I type in Coors instead of Colors by mistake. Also, how many times have you accidentaly created a new word unseen by man before and gone ahead and used it as a class name or identifier? :laugh: Jim
There is an apocryphal tale of the variable name Live_RSA_Usage that lost it's underscored and became LiverSausage I don't believe it myself....programmers never make smelling pistakes '--8<------------------------ Ex Datis: Duncan Jones Merrion Computing Ltd
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Robert Edward Caldecott wrote:
I've mis-typed "count" many times in the past...
I saw that one once in our code (with no o in count), written by Chinese guy. When I asked him do you know the meaning of it, he said no. When I explained him he almost fell of his chair. :laugh:
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So I'm coding along, and often I type in Coors instead of Colors by mistake. Also, how many times have you accidentaly created a new word unseen by man before and gone ahead and used it as a class name or identifier? :laugh: Jim
Jim Bennett wrote:
So I'm coding along, and often I type in Coors instead of Colors by mistake.
I remember once I was searching in our code (C#) for a variable named 'l' :doh: (lower case l ) It took me awful time to find that variable where it's been used. First I thought it's 1 (number). string l = ""; The reason was that guy was so lazy (and drunk). :mad:
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Jim Bennett wrote:
So I'm coding along, and often I type in Coors instead of Colors by mistake.
I remember once I was searching in our code (C#) for a variable named 'l' :doh: (lower case l ) It took me awful time to find that variable where it's been used. First I thought it's 1 (number). string l = ""; The reason was that guy was so lazy (and drunk). :mad:
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Kant wrote:
The reason was that guy was so lazy (and drunk).
Drunk? :omg: Regards, Nish
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A programmer that worked on some code I later had occasion to maintain had spelled "delimiter" incorrectly as "delimeter". Instead of fixing the error, I commented the code like this: "Delimeter: noun, usually refers to the standard length of a submarine sandwhich, typically 11.78 inches." ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
That particular misspelling is scattered throughout the code base of one of our projects too, it drives me nuts every time I see it. :mad: Neil Van Eps "Staging servers are for compulsive bed-wetting types." - Chris Maunder
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Kant wrote:
The reason was that guy was so lazy (and drunk).
Drunk? :omg: Regards, Nish
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Drunk?
Here on Friday afternoons, you can drink :beer: ;) In my previous gig at Austin, the company used to fill the refrigerator with :beer: on Fridays. So free :beer: Too bad I don't drink. :sigh:
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Drunk?
Here on Friday afternoons, you can drink :beer: ;) In my previous gig at Austin, the company used to fill the refrigerator with :beer: on Fridays. So free :beer: Too bad I don't drink. :sigh:
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Cheaper than a company outing to a bar...Smart thinking on their part. Just no product releases after 4 pm on Friday:) Jim
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A programmer that worked on some code I later had occasion to maintain had spelled "delimiter" incorrectly as "delimeter". Instead of fixing the error, I commented the code like this: "Delimeter: noun, usually refers to the standard length of a submarine sandwhich, typically 11.78 inches." ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
If you're going to criticise someone's spelling in that way it would be wise to learn to spell 'sandwich'! ;P Phil