Spellechecker - is this really fun?

Max Samukha spambox at d-coding.com
Sun May 9 08:39:20 PDT 2010


On 05/09/2010 06:03 PM, Eldar Insafutdinov wrote:
> Eldar Insafutdinov Wrote:
>
>> Jonathan M Davis Wrote:
>>
>>> It's definitely useful, and I haven't had any problems with. It's already
>>> helped me track down bugs faster.
>>>
>>
>> If you hit a compiler bug, this feature won't help you at all. And dmd has many of them. Many bugs get fixed, that's for sure, but for some strange reason as I move forward I find others. And I spend a lot more time with them, than with mistyping of symbols. For example I have just found a brand new one.
>
> Also I've just come across another bug, that I reported a month ago (http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4042). You can easily fix a typo, but not anything like this. What am I supposed to do?

I confirm that most of the productivity gain D is supposed to provide 
goes to waste because of the bugs. Watching Walter spending his time on 
json, spell checker, changeset 471 etc is somewhat frustrating.


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