[ruby-core:68751] [Ruby trunk - Feature #11032] Add a warning for misspelling "def intialize"

Issue #11032 has been updated by Matthew Kerwin.


Jeremy Evans wrote:
> What if I misspelled it "initailize"? Or "initalize"? Or any other of the numerous different ways to misspell it?

Or "initialise"? Which I do with some regularity.

My solution: unit testing.



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Feature #11032: Add a warning for misspelling "def intialize"
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/11032#change-52030

* Author: Robert A. Heiler
* Status: Open
* Priority: Low
* Assignee: 
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Hi guys,

When I was younger, in a class, I wrote this:

"def intialize(some_argument_here)"

This lead to an error because it should have been:

"def initialize(some_argument_here)"

My proposal is simple:

Add a warning for an error like this. :)

(a) If there is no method called "initialize"
(b) but there is a message called "intialize",
in a given class, add a notification such as:

"warning: intialize might be misspelled, perhaps you meant initialize"

Reasoning: Perhaps other people out there also sometimes misspell
initialize, so that might make it a bit faster for them to 
detect this error.



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