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wunderbread384
Jun 24, 2004
America's favorite bread
One of the guys who worked on my project before I got there was a great coder, but an absolutely horrible speller. I'm constantly finding variables or methods named catagory, assistint, lisence, componint, and crap like that. I never thought people would need spellchecking in an IDE, but man did this guy need SOMETHING.

It's not so bad in the Java code because it's pretty obvious when you're accessing something that doesn't exist, but in the client code and legacy web services it's a bitch sometimes. Every once in awhile I'll wonder why data coming from the service is undefined, and it'll end up being I was expecting category rather than catagory or license instead of lisence. And naturally since it's a service we can't just go and change the definitions, because other people might be depending on it. So I'm stuck writing things like getLisenceId() just so it's consistent at least.

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