The GD Coding Typo Dictionary (TM)

Max Optional · 2011-04-08T21:45:39

Let's admit it, we all make them. However, some are more amusing than others. For instance, I keep typing bugger instead of buffer. and PoopState instead of PopState. Also, I rather often type in an entirely unrelated and wrong word - for instance, last night I wrote lever instead of class. A while back I remember I was speed-coding and bleeding typos like a dyslexic Eskimo and I misspelt random as something like rdnadmod. The hardest part when something like that happens is winning that inner struggle and making the correct choice of deleting the entire word and re-typing it instead of trying to unmangle it one letter at a time, using cut and paste for single letters, because it just seems so right when you're coding like a mofo. I love typos - it's always great to see the compiler pop up a warning that VK_SHIFT is spelt with an f. Now share your golden puppies!

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Started by irreversible January 26, 2011 08:26 PM

37 comments, last by fastcall22 13 years ago

KulSeran

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January 27, 2011 06:11 AM

Also somewhen I spend a few minutes to figure out the difference between DoQuickload() and DoQuickIoad(). And that happened to me only because of......

Looks like someone needs a better font. (after a copy paste to my editor, the difference stood out quite well)

stupid fasle, and
#incldue or was that #inculde ?
maybe i should make a new #defien macro?

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szecs

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January 27, 2011 07:13 AM

Hey! I'm starting to think that maybe I AM a programmer. That FASLE thing is a nice hit.

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way2lazy2care

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January 27, 2011 01:57 PM

I find I type almost flawlessly until I have to type in all caps. Then it just starts getting ridiculous.

mind in a box

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January 27, 2011 04:25 PM

'mind said:

Also somewhen I spend a few minutes to figure out the difference between DoQuickload() and DoQuickIoad(). And that happened to me only because of……

Looks like someone needs a better font. (after a copy paste to my editor, the difference stood out quite well)

I thought exactly the same after that happened and switched to another font, so I should be good now

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January 27, 2011 09:09 PM

I don't really make those kind of mistakes often, since I usually know when I've made a typo straight away, and rectify it using backspaces. However, I always seem to write destory instead of destroy. Maybe I should type destroy over and over again until I always get it right.

Oh, and I also refuse to vote in the poll, since that means I have to answer the second question.

swiftcoder

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January 27, 2011 09:24 PM

However, I always seem to write destory instead of destroy. Maybe I should type destroy over and over again until I always get it right.

You know how when you say a word over and over again, it starts to sound strange and you get confused about the pronunciation? Same goes for repeatedly typing the same word over and over. By this time tomorrow, you will be typing 'tesrody'...

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