[plt-scheme] error message for case-sensitivity

On Tue 25 May 2004 16:54, John Clements wrote:
>
> You could go even further with this.  I can imagine a system that
> would 1) check for similar re-casings of the identifier, and
> suggested them to the user.
> 2) if this doesn't work, ask the user whether this was supposed to
> refer to a user-defined or library procedure.
> 3) If a user-defined procedure, allow the user to browse a list of
> the user-defined procedures.
>
> I'm not sure what kind of research there is in here, but it seems
> do-able.

Going even further, you could check not only for re-casings but also for 
misspellings. SWI-Prolog does this:

?- writes(foo).
ERROR: Undefined procedure: writes/1
ERROR:     However, there are definitions for:
ERROR:         write/1
ERROR:         writef/1
ERROR:         writeq/1
ERROR:         write/2
ERROR:         writef/2
ERROR:         writeq/2

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