it and explicitVar?

[Peter Haworth]

My lousy typing skills have led to several hours of debugging.  Once I
discovered explicitVars, most of the typos are dealt with.  And, while
recompiling scripts with explicitVars on, I found several other typos that
were sitting there waiting to cause grief at some time in the future.

The other main source of typo problems is custom properties and now with
Alex Tweedly's explicitProperties plugin, I can find those too.  Life is
good.

Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>



On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Malte Brill <revolution at derbrill.de> wrote:

> Even though explicit vars (or strict compile mode in the prefs) is
> considdered to be a major headache by some, I have never looked back since
> I started to make this a prerequisite in all the code my company writes for
> others. When we have people writing code for us, we also require it to
> compile in strict mode, otherwise the code is not accepted. It adds little
> extra work, but helps tremendously when debugging or refactoring. I can
> only encourage people to use strict compile mode. You will quickly find all
> typos and it actually makes for cleaner code. I would even want the engine
> to be (optionally) a little stricter and introduce typed variables (and
> global constants *sigh), well I might be one of only a few there, but
> wishful thinking never hurts. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Malte
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