Re: Is it possible to point out all the errors in an already written Lua script? Is there a IDE that could achieve this goal?

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great 孙世龙 sunshilong once stated:
> Gé Weijers, Thank you for your detailed explanation.
> My understanding of this question is at a different level with your
> generous help.
> 
> I agree with what all you said indeed.
> 
> I still have a question, how C/C++ achieve this goal (i.e. reporting
> multiple errors after running a compilation)?

  Not very well.  They kept going, but the errors accumulated so you would
get a cascade of errors.  A minor example:

src/callbacks.c: In function `handle_aflinks':
src/callbacks.c:707: error: syntax error before "char"
src/callbacks.c:705: warning: empty body in an if-statement
src/callbacks.c: At top level:
src/callbacks.c:724: error: syntax error before '}' token
make: *** [src/callbacks.o] Error 1

  Two errors, one warning.  The actual error?  A missing opening '{'.  The
conventional wisdom was to ignore all reported errors except for the first
one.  

  -spc