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What is your worst typo trigger?

Juneau Lim on June 13, 2019

I just started to learning React and I keep type status instead of state. // App.js with React state = {something: 'whatever'} Enter full...
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Steven Kuipers

making a typo in for loops: arr.lenght instead of arr.length.
This tripped me over more than once. It hasn't happened in ages because of intellisense and a better editor setup but I'm still so focused on it.

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Juneau Lim

I also used to make a similar typo.
Yes, surely editors are helpful. Never want to go back to Notepad++.

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Steven Martin

I can't type an 'in' ending with adding a 'g'. I do it constantly.

  • palading
  • /usr/bing
  • loging

Too many years of it now to break the habbit. But I have found I do it less in programming than in other forms of writing. Something about the way the braing(!) is wired while coding...

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Juneau Lim • Edited

lol this is interesting... There might be just less -in words in coding. Thanks for sharing yours.

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Si

Their is no worse typo, in my opinion, then those using there/their/they're wrong.

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Juneau Lim

You just made me go through reading my post again to make sure I didn't make that typo.

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Si

Haha sorry. It was supposed to be funny, because I intentionally used the wrong one in my reply 😊

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Juneau Lim

Don't worry it was funny🤣, even myself doing that was also funny.

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Antonio Radovcic

In Elixir:

def my_function(:thing) {

}
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Juneau Lim

I also keep doing it in Python... lol

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Karolis Ryselis

I always type "food" instead of "good", especially when it's close to lunch break

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Juneau Lim

After the typo your lunch must be food good. 😝

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Kognise
cosnt foo = 'bar'

This one gets me every time.

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Juneau Lim

lol I was even having a hard time finding what you are talking about.