Where did we lurn to spel?

[Julian H. Stacey]

Warren Block wrote:

> > accept in comments. How about dont vs don't ?
> 
> The old "be generous in what you accept and strict in what you produce" 
> saying can apply.  The code is what we produce, and comments should be 
> as good as we can make them.  "Thru" is difficult to justify.  "Dont" 
> and "cant" could be from trying to avoid an apostrophe.  Just spelling 
> out the words instead of using the contraction solves the problem.

Single apostrophes are best avoided, 
noisey when hunting unmatched brackets or quotes with eg my
http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/jhs/bin/public/brackets/

Cheers,
Julian
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