Spelling mistakes!

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Mon Jan 9 19:44:25 EST 2006


KraftDiner wrote:
> I've spent hours trying to find a bug that was a simple spelling
> mistake.
> 
> in an init method I declare a variable  self.someLongName
> 
> later in a different method of the class I use
> self.sumLongName
> Now I really meant self.someLongName.
> In fact I don't want a variable called sumLongName.
> Frankly how are you ever to know if this type of error is occuring?
> 
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