From: John Carter <john.carter@...>
Date: 2005-05-04T06:18:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Typo-checking instead of static typing

On Wed, 4 May 2005, SER wrote:

>> Once again, static typing reared its head on the mailing list, and
> once
>> again, the knights of the Ruby table slayed the beast...
>
> It would be more accurate to say that the Knights claimed the beast
> was:
>
> 1) impossible to implement


http://rubyforge.org/snippet/detail.php?type=snippet&id=47

Description:
Searches through all defined symbols for near misses in namespace. 
Hopefully some of those listed will be mispelling bugs.

Usage :-
ruby -w Mispel.rb

Will run its unit tests.

ruby -rmodule1 -rmodule2 -rmodule... Mispel.rb --cache

Will create ~/.mispel_ignore, a list of known near misses in the
system and in those modules.

If you add into your script, after all require statements...

require 'Mispel'
Mispel::problem_cases
exit(1)

It will (after a long time) print out all near misses in namespace
that are not in ~/.mispel_ignore


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