need for LuaLint? (Re: Experience with Large Applications in Lua?)

[Asko Kauppi <asko.kauppi@...>]

How about a tool that would collect the suggested function 
'descriptors' and apply them to all invocations of the functions?

I'm certainly _not_ going to do such a tool, but .. if someone will.. :)

That would find often experienced bugs s.a. wrong params to 
'string.find' (I tend to forget the string itself! :)  and such. 
Basically, a Lint 
(http://computing-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/lint) for Lua.

-ak


7.7.2004 kello 13:53, Jamie Webb kirjoitti:

 On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 10:50:21AM +0200, Steve Donovan wrote:
> > In a nutshell: we need strong testing, not strong typing.
>
> The problem I have with this argument is that a static type checker:
> a) is more reliable
> b) will tell you exactly where the problem is, rather than throwing up
> an error at some point later when you try and misuse a value.