typo checks considered mandatory (was Re: Is "scripting" truly Lua's future?)

[Chip Salzenberg <chip@...>]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 07:56:29PM +0300, Veli-Pekka T?til? wrote:
> Another thing I find helpful is that Perl's strictness is compile-time so 
> my variable typos.

This, this, a hundred times this.

Humans make mistakes; pretending otherwise is just ignoring reality.  I
don't want a computer to second- guess my design decisions; but when it
comes to spelling, I *need* help.

I invented a strict.lua but it only works at runtime, not compile time.
That's not really good enough.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg <chip@pobox.com>