Scott

A relatively harmless infraction compared to the guy who misspelt "referrer" as "referer" (as in $ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'})

§ George Sherston

.oO( find | xargs perl -i -pe's/depricated/deprecated/g' )
(update: stefp correctly said /g was a good idea)

2;0 juerd@ouranos:~$ perl -e'undef christmas'
Segmentation fault
2;139 juerd@ouranos:~$
[download]

There is a loophole (sic). you probably meant:

<ctt>find | xargs perl -i -pe's/depricated/deprecated/g'

-- stefp -- check out TeXmacs wiki

Yes, yes, I know I could do that, but I don't really want to break something that is currently working. That misspelling is spread across MSSQL Server as column headings in various tables, VB script ASPs, C++ applications, and Perl scripts. If I were to try to change it now, it would certainly break something.

The project I inherited and now spend most of my time with is full of these. And they could not even misspell consistently :-(

Jenda
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
   -- Rick Osborne

Edit by castaway: Closed small tag in signature

you probably meant:
"If it can be mispelled, then it will be misspelled."
Corollary: misspelings are not consistant.

-- stefp -- check out TeXmacs wiki

Calm down boo_radley. It was not meant as a flame. It's just a fact of life that words will get misspelled.

metadoktor

"The doktor is in."

I think he meant it humourously! He was calling his own post a gratuitous flame, interestingly enough from a linguistic point of view, precisely so as to tell us that it was *not* a flame.

§ George Sherston

Metadoktor is a perfectly well spelled word in almost
every language except English. What is it with English
and this completely superfluous C?

Regards, Helgi Briem