Programmer's Language-Aware Spell Checker?

Jerry Asher writes "Not all of my coworkers are careful about spelling errors. Sometimes this causes real embarrassment as spelling errors creep into software interfaces. Does anyone know of spell checkers for programming languages? I don't want a text spell checker, I want a programming-language-aware spell checker. A spell checker that I can pass all of my code through and will flag spelling errors in function names, variable names, and comments, but will ignore language keywords, language constructs and expressions, and various programming styles (camel code, or underscores, or...). I want a spell checker that knows that void *functionSigniture(char *myRoutine) contains one spelling error. Does anyone have such a thing for Java or C++? Are there any Eclipse plugins that do this?"

Comments

Re:Keep text in dedicated files

[pasamio]

The solution to this is simple, you use the Microsoft approach which is to keep old names of the functions around and wrapper them to the new names in the hope that people will start using the new name instead of using the old name. That said it shouldn't have been a problem anyway. I have translators who email me reminding me my English has mistakes from time to time (last one was writeable/writable, writable is supposed to be the right one but both come up as spelling errors in Safari anyway) so having a spellcheck intelligent enough to catch some things would be useful.

FxCop

[soundman32]

I'm sure you aren't using .NET, but if you were, FxCop will check for spelling mistakes in code and comments and strings, along with 1M other coding issues (like malformed variable names, parameters).

Wow

[ShakaUVM]

Wow, first good question I've heard asked on Slashdot in a long time.

Very interesting idea.