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julian2002
New Member
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 Posted - Jul 21 2010 : 11:38:17 AM
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Hi,
it would be nice to have this in a future release.
for example m_tehOjbect would produce the suggestion m_theObject.
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CThsiClsas would suggest CThisClass.
It's very easy for spelling mistakes to be propagated and unnoticed thanks to auto completion and while fixing them using the refactor / rename functionality is trivial it can sometimes be tough to spot bugs caused by mixed correct and incorrect spellings.
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
19022 Posts |
Posted - Jul 21 2010 : 1:54:50 PM
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| I am confused, VA does not spell check your source code, and these are clearly code names, not standard English words. Since they are code names, we cannot simply spell check them, since there is no reason to assume the parts of the word will be in the dictionary. |
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness |
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julian2002
New Member
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Posted - Jul 22 2010 : 09:42:57 AM
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hi,
I realise that it's probably a new feature, although VA does have the 'Underline spelling errors in comments and strings using <colour>' so i guess there is some form of spell checking going on in there.
While the whole label m_theObject IS a 'code name' the component parts separated by the 'camel case' rules rather than spaces ARE plain English m_ could be safely ignored if found and 'the' and 'Object' are legitimate English language words.
so if i typed m_tehObject the camel case rules would split the member into m_, teh and Object. m_ would be ignored, teh would be recognised as a common misspelling of 'the' and 'Object' would pass ok -giving the suggestion 'm_theObject'.
It's very rare that I use non standard English words in my code as I am part of a team and clear member names produce more readable code and explain my intent to other team members. In the rare occasion that non standard English words ARE used, splitting the words in the above described manner would make adding words to the dictionary fairly simple. Of course once the member is declared the existing spell checking would make more sense.
Hope that's clarified my suggestion a bit more. Just something I came across and thought would be a useful addition. |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
19022 Posts |
Posted - Jul 23 2010 : 1:52:41 PM
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The more I think about this, the more sense it makes. I have put in a feature request to see what our developers make of it. I am not sure we will every try to do this, but it is an interesting idea 
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zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness |
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hfrmobile
Ketchup Master
Austria
79 Posts |
Posted - Aug 09 2010 : 07:32:07 AM
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Would be helpful for us and a lot of developers since typos in code are harder to fix (e.g. when a interface is released to many customers)
The feature request looks like Microsoft's FxCop and StyleCop (in the .NET world of C#) |
Visual Assist X for C/C++ and ReSharper, FxCop and StyleCop for C#, Eclipse Ganymede for Java |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
19022 Posts |
Posted - Aug 09 2010 : 11:59:51 AM
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| Useful to know, thank you. I have added a note to the case about this. |
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness |
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hfrmobile
Ketchup Master
Austria
79 Posts |
Posted - Aug 10 2010 : 3:57:45 PM
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| Thanks a lot! |
Visual Assist X for C/C++ and ReSharper, FxCop and StyleCop for C#, Eclipse Ganymede for Java |
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Camel case spell checking
