As a brief diversion from real work, implemente...

As a brief diversion from real work, implemented Damerau–Levenshtein
and ran it on trunk to elicit obvious misspellings. Unfortunately
they're mostly in places like compiler comments which real people never
see, but I fixed them anyway. All those English Lit majors who peruse
our sources are sure to be pleased. No review.

5 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/ast/DocComments.scala b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/ast/DocComments.scala
index 34b1c97f0c..3144d8140d 100755
--- a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/ast/DocComments.scala
+++ b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/ast/DocComments.scala
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ trait DocComments { self: SymbolTable =>
 
   /** The position of the raw doc comment of symbol `sym`, or NoPosition if missing
    *  If a symbol does not have a doc comment but some overridden version of it does,
-   *  the posititon of the doc comment of the overridden version is returned instead.
+   *  the position of the doc comment of the overridden version is returned instead.
    */
   def docCommentPos(sym: Symbol): Position =
     getDocComment(sym) map (_.pos) getOrElse NoPosition
diff --git a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/ast/NodePrinters.scala b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/ast/NodePrinters.scala
index b8117ceaa4..ccab6423cf 100644
--- a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/ast/NodePrinters.scala
+++ b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/ast/NodePrinters.scala
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ abstract class NodePrinters {
           if (sym hasFlag COVARIANT    ) buf.append(" | COVARIANT")
           if (sym hasFlag CAPTURED     ) buf.append(" | CAPTURED")
           if (sym hasFlag BYNAMEPARAM  ) buf.append(" | BYNAMEPARAM")
-          if (sym hasFlag CONTRAVARIANT) buf.append(" | CONTRVARIANT")
+          if (sym hasFlag CONTRAVARIANT) buf.append(" | CONTRAVARIANT")
           if (sym hasFlag LABEL        ) buf.append(" | LABEL")
           if (sym hasFlag INCONSTRUCTOR) buf.append(" | INCONSTRUCTOR")
           if (sym hasFlag ABSOVERRIDE  ) buf.append(" | ABSOVERRIDE")
diff --git a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/ast/parser/Parsers.scala b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/ast/parser/Parsers.scala
index 30aaf56ceb..1cfee481bc 100644
--- a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/ast/parser/Parsers.scala
+++ b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/ast/parser/Parsers.scala
@@ -1576,7 +1576,7 @@ self =>
 
 /* -------- MODIFIERS and ANNOTATIONS ------------------------------------------- */
 
-    /** Drop `private' modifier when follwed by a qualifier.
+    /** Drop `private' modifier when followed by a qualifier.
      *  Conract `abstract' and `override' to ABSOVERRIDE
      */
     private def normalize(mods: Modifiers): Modifiers =
diff --git a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/ast/parser/Scanners.scala b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/ast/parser/Scanners.scala
index f4fa6fd75b..eeb3fb6e7a 100644
--- a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/ast/parser/Scanners.scala
+++ b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/ast/parser/Scanners.scala
@@ -802,7 +802,7 @@ trait Scanners {
     }
 
     /** Parse character literal if current character is followed by \',
-     *  or follow with given op and return a symol literal token
+     *  or follow with given op and return a symbol literal token
      */
     def charLitOr(op: () => Unit) {
       putChar(ch)
diff --git a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/ast/parser/TreeBuilder.scala b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/ast/parser/TreeBuilder.scala
index 812ad23078..bea52b1153 100644
--- a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/ast/parser/TreeBuilder.scala
+++ b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/ast/parser/TreeBuilder.scala
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ abstract class TreeBuilder {
       }
     }
 
-  /** Create a tree represeting an assignment <lhs = rhs> */
+  /** Create a tree representing an assignment <lhs = rhs> */
   def makeAssign(lhs: Tree, rhs: Tree): Tree = lhs match {
     case Apply(fn, args) =>
       Apply(atPos(fn.pos) { Select(fn, nme.update) }, args ::: List(rhs))