I'm working on a C++ game that uses Lua scripts to control robot
players. I'm noticing a common error that the scripters are making,
and am looking for a way to detect it and print a helpful error
message.
When the scripters should be writing:
bot:setAngle(angle)
they often write:
bot.setAngle(angle)
which looks similar but is of course very different. However,
anyone with much experience in Java, C++, etc., is conditioned to
see the second (wrong) version as right, so this is a very difficult
bug to detect while reading the code.
In the setAngle function, I check that the correct number of
parameters is passed, and I generate an error message if that
happens. What I'd like to do is augment that mechanism by checking
if the user used the "." variant and display a different message
that suggests they verify that they meant to use "." and not ":".
Is there a way from C++ to figure out if a function was called using
"." as opposed to ":"?
Thanks!
