On 2013-10-16 17:37, Sean Kelly wrote:
I'm reasonably okay with dynamic languages so long as you can require a
variable to be declared before it's used. Those that implicitly declare on
first assignment are a nightmare however. I once spent an entire day debugging
a Lua app that turned out to be broken because of a typo in an assignment.
Never again.
That can be quite annoying in Ruby sometimes:
class Bar
attr_accessor :foo
def bar
puts foo # calls the getter
foo = "asd" # declares a local variable
self.foo = "foobar" # calls the setter
@foo = "barfoo" # bypasses the setter and set the instance variable
directory
puts foo # prints the local variable
end
end
Bar.new.bar
Although I like that instance variables are not required to be declared.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
