On Jan 3, 2012 6:02 PM, "Michael Orlitzky" <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote:
>
> On 01/03/2012 05:53 PM, Simon King wrote:
>>
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> On 3 Jan., 23:39, Michael Orlitzky<mich...@orlitzky.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> This is an old ticket to catch misspellings of 'sage:' in doctests:
>>>
>>>    http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6439
>>>
>>> Am I being insensitive, or should it be marked invalid? I don't think
>>> developer typos are covered by the warranty.
>>
>>
>> If you read the ticket description, you'll find that misspelling
>> "sage:" in one line of a doctest means that this line will in fact not
>> be tested. That is a bug and must be fixed. The ticket is clearly
>> valid, I'd say.
>>
>
> Sure, I read it -- I gave a few reasons in the comments why I don't think
it matters in practice.
>

I agree with you Michael,  though he expressed himself unclearly.   The
tickets was not about fixing doctests anywhere in sage (which your email
strongly suggested!) but about adding arbitrary checks to the doctest
framework.

William

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