Re: anti-advocacy: Larry Seltzer, pcmag May'01 pub.

At 10:04 AM 5/10/01 -0500, Greg Brunet wrote: >Actually, one thing that I REALLY like about the newer VB development >environment is that it will automatically correct/adjust the case of your >variables/functions to match their definition. This allows me to define >them according to my naming convention, but not have to worry about keeping >them straight in the code - the tool handles it for me & that's as it should >be. Ok -- this too is not a flame, but just an opinion. I personally don't exactly like that much hand holding. It's like the "auto-correct" features in MS products. Yea, it's great for productivity and that . . . but what reinforces the thought that you boo-boo'ed and didn't have to correct it? If I spell receive as "recieve" every time I type something . . . it's still not right in my mind . . . otherwise I wouldn't type it. When you don't have the crutch of the computer handy -- are you going to look like a complete moron with all the "learned" typos that MS corrected for you? Tools should not instill bad practices and mask them for you. They are tools -- just that . . . they should enable you to work easier, but they shouldn't fix your work for you -- at least not automatically to where the conditioned response is "typos are good as long as the computer figures it out". -- Bradley Miller