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yaml
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r: 51077
b: refs/heads/try
c: d7ba0ac
h: refs/heads/master
i:
  51075: b25a428
v: v3

Author: bors

[refs]

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 refs/heads/master: 5f13e9ccc2e3328d4cd8ca49f84e6840dd998346
 refs/heads/snap-stage1: e33de59e47c5076a89eadeb38f4934f58a3618a6
 refs/heads/snap-stage3: f7a2371c176663d59062ec5158f39faecba45768
-refs/heads/try: 84ddff3909b5920228642649b7f5cc011c0b900a
+refs/heads/try: d7ba0acbf5aef70cb4afd162e0c0a1fa07813db7
 refs/tags/release-0.1: 1f5c5126e96c79d22cb7862f75304136e204f105
 refs/heads/ndm: f3868061cd7988080c30d6d5bf352a5a5fe2460b
 refs/heads/try2: 147ecfdd8221e4a4d4e090486829a06da1e0ca3c

branches/try/src/librustc/middle/resolve.rs

@@ -4666,7 +4666,7 @@ pub impl Resolver {
         }
     }
 
-    fn find_best_match_for_name(@mut self, name: &str) -> Option<~str> {
+    fn find_best_match_for_name(@mut self, name: &str, max_distance: uint) -> Option<~str> {
         let this = &mut *self;
 
         let mut maybes: ~[~str] = ~[];
@@ -4694,6 +4694,7 @@ pub impl Resolver {
         if vec::len(values) > 0 &&
             values[smallest] != uint::max_value &&
             values[smallest] < str::len(name) + 2 &&
+            values[smallest] <= max_distance &&
             maybes[smallest] != name.to_owned() {
 
             Some(vec::swap_remove(&mut maybes, smallest))
@@ -4770,8 +4771,9 @@ pub impl Resolver {
                                         wrong_name));
                         }
                         else {
-                            match self.find_best_match_for_name(wrong_name) {
-
+                            // limit search to 5 to reduce the number
+                            // of stupid suggestions
+                            match self.find_best_match_for_name(wrong_name, 5) {
                                 Some(m) => {
                                     self.session.span_err(expr.span,
                                             fmt!("unresolved name: `%s`. \
@@ -5292,4 +5294,3 @@ pub fn resolve_crate(session: Session,
         trait_map: trait_map
     }
 }
-

branches/try/src/test/compile-fail/issue-2281-part1.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+// Copyright 2012 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+// error-pattern: unresolved name: `foobar`.
+
+fn main(args: ~[str]) { debug!(foobar); }