Re: How can we make lua better?

[David Olofson <david@...>]

On Monday 28 February 2005 20.57, Asko Kauppi wrote:
> 
> hypothetically, in a language without 'local' declaration, any typo 
> would automatically launch a new variable and that would be very
> hard to track.  sorry, not for my taste. :)

...except when variables are considered uninitialized until anssigned 
to the first time. Then you get a compile time error when reading a 
"typo variable". Doesn't catch assignment to "typo variables", 
though...

Either way, that requires quite a bit of logic behind the scenes - and 
then you get funny errors like "Reading uninitialized variable!" when 
you misspell function names. :-)

(That can probably be dealt with, though. This gives me an idea... 
*off to hack*)


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