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

["Kristofer Karlsson" <kristofer.karlsson@...>]

2007/9/14, Jeff Wise <jwise@sealyrealty.com>:
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> I apologize for the delay in response to your reply to my question.  I was
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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
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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 …?
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You could take a look at this:
http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaLint

It's difficult to implement this in compile time in Lua but you can
easily implement run time checks for access of non-declared global
variables.

I give this as a reference:
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2007-03/msg00873.html