[q2x] OT: Lua questions

[theoddone33 at icculus.org]

Quoting Brian Hook <hook_l at pyrogon.com>:

> Okay, my #1 bitch about Lua at this time has become the lack of static
> type/safety/syntax checking.

Well, it *is* a dynamically typed language.  I imagine you'd have the same
problem with plenty of other scripting languages.

> Ugh.  It's not writing the scripts that's taking forever, it just the
> real basic syntax checking that's just killing me.

Just like forgetting to end a line with a semicolon oh so many years ago when we
were all learning C, I imagine that this is something that happens less with
more Lua experience.  Other than that, unit tests could speed up the finding of
these errors, and we all should be doing unit tests anyway I'm told.

It's not really something I've run into enough to annoy me.  It's certainly a
downside of dynamic typing, but in my experience these runtime errors are just
about as annoying as compile errors are with C.