Spelling correction

[Rene Bach <BACH@SU-SCORE.ARPA>]

I am new on this list (please forgive me if this topic has been discussed
already).

It has been our experience that using the spelling correction facilities
provided by Interlisp are very useful to provide nice user interfaces.
It is also my belief that to do flexible symbol matching requires
spelling correction.

My question is: why doesn't CL include a specification for a spelling
correction function. The description of the Interlisp functions could be
used as specification for the I/O. The choice of the algorithm could
be left open.

Regards
Rene Bach
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