From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2005-09-01T02:03:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about Inheritance

Martin DeMello wrote:
> Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> 
>>Just for fun...
>>
>>$ ruby code-nanny.rb
>>Did you type too fast again? 'initalize' != 'initialize'
>>Did you type too fast again? 'intialize' != 'initialize'
>>Did you type too fast again? 'inaltiaez' != 'initialize'
>>Did you type too fast again? 'initiliaze' != 'initialize'
>>$ cat code-nanny.rb
>>module CodeNanny
>>  def method_added(m)
>>    if /^in[ital]{2,6}[alize]{2,6}\b/ =~ m.to_s
>>      if m != :initialize
>>        warn "Did you type too fast again? '#{m}' != 'initialize'"
>>      end
>>    end
>>  end
>>end
> 
> 
> You missed 'initialise'! (I remember various ruby-lint projects being
> mentioned in the past - anyone know what happened to them?)
> 
> martin

:) I almost added that, but I coudn't think of a humorous way to accuse
the programmer of being a Queen's English speaker (maybe that's humorous
enough as it is).

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