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

I just did Tools|Options and turned on my "Spell check before sending" option! Regards, John Thompson "Bradley Miller" <bradmiller@accesszone.com> wrote in message news:3.0.3.32.20010510101438.00a06af0@mail.accesszone.com... > 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 > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >