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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: I just hope it isn't customer facing.
No, but when I serialize the enum value to a string (I don't trust this company to not change the ordinal values), I don't want the client-side Javascript to continue this atrocity, so it looks like I'll have either a special handler case or map the enum with the typo to my own enum and deal with ordinal value changes if they happen. Or some other half-assed solution.
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Marc Clifton wrote: I don't trust this company to not change the ordinal values
Say it ain't so! 
/ravi
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I have to put up with a production code path containing "Intergrated" instead of "Integrated".  It's been there for years so no-one wants to touch it! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Inter - place into a grave or crypt
Grated - like to grate cheese, etc.
to place shredded cheese into a grave or crypt. It could happen.
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Slacker007 wrote: Grated - like *******, made grate again.
ftfy
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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did they intend
intern_grated ?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Wow, to not fix that is AMAZING...
What thought process causes this?
Is it risk aversion?
Test Aversion?
It would be fixed by the next build if I worked there. Especially if this affected the client (which makes the company look stupid if the client notices)...
Curious... What is it that causes it not to be addressed/fixed?
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I recently made a typo in my code, quite consistently too.
A coworker pointed it out, we had a laugh about it, and I spent about ten minutes renaming all the properties and variables where the word was used 
Another coworker once put the Dutch equivalent of "Are you sute?" (instead of "sure") in a WinForms app.
We fixed it on our own, but no doubt the customer had already seen it 
I once found a typo on the pre-printed invoice paper of our customers (it was in the tiny letters).
And an aunt who makes her own soap had a typo on her packaging, which she found after she had quite a few pressed.
A typo could happen to anyone really.
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Sander Rossel wrote: A typo could happen to anyone really.
Of course. But the damn thing should be fixed. Like you did. Good for you!
Sadly, because this is third party software, I can't fix it. I can only "convert" it:
var myEnum = (ProperlySpelledEnum)yourF*ckedUpEnumValue;
Or is it "Spelt", because that's what the Brits and other more civilized people would probably use.
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Marc Clifton wrote: But the damn thing should be fixed
True, especially when it's "third party" (they should fix it)!
Marc Clifton wrote: Or is it "Spelt"
Spelled, unless you're into wheat[^] 
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Either is correct, unless you're using American English, when it's spelled.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Or is it "Spelt", because that's what the Brits and other more civilized people would probably use.
Certainly always has been in the part of Britain I grew up in. Spelt and spelled are both used as past participles, although spelt feels more natural to me. Yes, spelt is also a type of wheat.
See also smelt - past participle of smell, a type of fish, and an ore extraction process.
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Grammar is overateed! 
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Super Lloyd wrote: Grammar is overateed!
Sure, but speeling don't matter at all.
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In our company, the coding guidelines document (BTW, absolutely terrible) is called "Codding guidelines". And this is not typo, the document author thinks it is OK.
Don't be surprised, we are working with nuggets.
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Did you mean "Coddling guideline"?!
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Super Lloyd wrote: Did you mean "Coddling guideline"?!
Probably, on the next sprint.
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Super Lloyd wrote: Did you mean "Coddling guideline"
Just what I was thinking!
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VisualAssistX has a nice Rename feature which is type and scope wise. It helps a lot (sadly it's not free but the personal license is not expensive).
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Visual Studio does it too!
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I installed VAX when I was forced to use VS6 because it was the only IDE my boss was able to use. I admit that from VS2008 onwards it's less useful, yet it has some features that became absolutely paramount for me.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Unfortunately, this is 3rd party software that I can't fix.
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We have the word Cancel and its past tense in our domain.
11 years ago the standard (in US) was to spell the past tense as Canceled.
Now, you'll find people and software spelling it as, Cancelled.
We even have discussions with younger devs saying that it is mis-spelled in the older versions. Oy!
It's like the Master Grammarian-Spellers gave in to the oft mis-spelled version and said, "Screw it, you can speel it either way."
This must be how irregardless came to have the same meaning as regardless.
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"Cancelled" is, and always has been, the correct spelling. The Americans use the discount version of English with several letters missing from words, such as what should be a double "L" is replaced by a single, and the worst offence replacing "ou" with "o", for example "color" instead of the correct "colour" leading to the correct statement, "There is no honour or valour in America". 
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