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In many dynamic languages, depending on scope, spelling is not a nitpick, it has long term mental costs and very well can cause bugs.


I should have been less ambiguous: i meant spelling of words on the English language, in comments.

Good pr systems will perform a build of the code and run tests, so if the mis-spelling is in the code the build will fail anyway.


Sorta, but it’s almost never worth blocking the PR over. Just ask to fix and approve. If it doesn’t happen and you come across it later just fix it.


Spelling automatically should be highlighted by the ide too. Spelling mistakes means you’re blatantly ignoring warnings from the ide.


Please see my other comment. I meant misspelling of English words in the comments. Misspelled code will not compile and/or pass the tests so the pr won’t be accepted anyway.




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