Subject: spelling musings

From: David Van Buren <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1993 15:36:05 -0700

Luckily, my core came without Mr. Spell (sorry waffle) and I could put the
thing in my pocket without it making a hole and falling out.  

But, spelling checking is maybe not the right thing for a moo to be doing,
how about setting up a spell server and connecting with onc, shuffling the
text to and from.  I have the feeling notify() and read() are a lot less
tick intensive than lookups in the spelling db.  Once you pay the overhead
for the connection that is.

If you want to do it from the client side, you can just run spell on the
region of interest in mud.el + variants.  Setting up the hooks would even
be fun.

On the other hand, Mr. Spell prolly doesn't get too much of a workout since
deep down he's just a building/creativity tool, not something that's being
used alla time.  

Or actually, you could imagine a spelling fascist moo that had Mr. Spell 
running all the time, scanning text for incorrectnesses, or even hooked into
say and pose.  Hey, how about that lag on Lambda.  Naaah, couldn't be.