alt Hacker NewsI’ve often thought it would be funny if instead of an error message for stuff like this, a language could be designed to be “typo-insensitive”. If a method or function call is similar enough to an existing one or a common one from other languages, to just have it silently use that.
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QuesnayJr • today at 5:58 PM
Lisp had a package for that, DWIM, in the late 60s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWIM.
MarkusQ • today at 5:18 PM
I hope you mean "funny" in the "hilarity ensues" sense.
Because the alternative is a rather sociopathic level of schadenfreude.
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VisualBasic did that. I think it is a mistake. But that doesn't mean that the compiler can't detect that and tell you how to fix it instead.