Re: Jerome Vuarand's reply to my "table return" query

["Dirk Feytons" <dirk.feytons@...>]

On 9/14/07, Jeff Wise <jwise@sealyrealty.com> wrote:
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> I apologize for the delay in response to your reply to my question.  I was
> away in a class.
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> The question was about a function that returned a table.  The debugging
> messages in the function indicated that the table was properly built, but
> the main routine had nil for a table.  The function was more than a page
> long, and I made a typographical error in the return statement.  So the
> problem was my "fat fingers" that type more than one key per keystroke.  I
> could not view the return statement and the guts of the code at the same
> time.
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> Thanks for your response.
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> It would seem to me that an option like VB's "Option Explicit" where all
> variable names must be declared would help with this sort of problem.  Is
> this a major code effort, something that would compromise lua's philosophy,
> or …?

Check out strict.lua that comes with the standard Lua distribution.
You can find it in the ./etc directory.

-- 
Dirk