At 23 May 2001 09:28:08 -0700 Nick Drochak wrote:

> that they often have bugs related to mistyping variable names?

> I run into this problem somewhat often when programming in Visual
> FoxPro. Now that I am starting in Ruby, I am wondering what others
> have done to avoid the problem.

Use a good editor. ;-)

For example, Vim/emacs has completiton capabilities which
allow you to type partial word, the press a key and get the rest of
the word automatically. 
This works especially well for long names.

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