Re: From dynamic to static

[PA <petite.abeille@...>]

On Oct 31, 2005, at 09:29, Asko Kauppi wrote:

> To me, "static Lua" would be the way to make Lua usable in Grand Big 
> projects.
>
> In fact, I regard that as the major difference between Microsoft 
> values (C#) and Lua. That is, 'they' absolutely seem to want static 
> checking everywhere, and I can understand them allright.
>
> As to myself, Lua as is is my favorite. But sometimes, some more 
> checking options wouldn't hurt... Always better to find things at 
> compile time than runtime.

Some food for thought:

"Strong Typing vs. Strong Testing"
-- Bruce Eckel
http://www.mindview.net/WebLog/log-0025


Cheers

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