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
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