rustc_span::edit_distance

Function find_best_match_for_name

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pub fn find_best_match_for_name(
    candidates: &[Symbol],
    lookup: Symbol,
    dist: Option<usize>,
) -> Option<Symbol>
Expand description

Finds the best match for a given word in the given iterator.

As a loose rule to avoid the obviously incorrect suggestions, it takes an optional limit for the maximum allowable edit distance, which defaults to one-third of the given word.

We use case insensitive comparison to improve accuracy on an edge case with a lower(upper)case letters mismatch.