Lisp had a package for that, DWIM, in the late 60s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWIM.
replyVisualBasic did that. I think it is a mistake. But that doesn't mean that the compiler can't detect that and tell you how to fix it instead.
replyI hope you mean "funny" in the "hilarity ensues" sense.
replyBecause the alternative is a rather sociopathic level of schadenfreude.
Yes, I say “funny” because it would be impractical and weird, definitely not a good idea. It’s already a bad enough that so many popular languages don’t (and can’t) check if a field or method is misspelled at compile time…
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