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feature request: highlight globals [message #835000]

Mon, 02 April 2012 13:05

Jay Carlson
Messages: 2
Registered: April 2012

Junior Member

One of the most common errors in Lua is to misspell an identifier. If you have

local tests
print(test)

test will refer to a global. The AST contains this information. Many code styles, especially for modules, do not use globals much outside of local foo=foo imports. A visual highlight on test in

print(test)

would help people coding this way.

I don't know much about the DLTK, but Smalltalk has a cheap non-typed typo checker for method selectors. Translated to Lua, an occurrence of foo.testt is likely to be a typo unless somewhere else in the program any

bar.testt=...

exists. That seems harder though.

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		feature request: highlight globals By: Jay Carlson on Mon, 02 April 2012 13:05
		Re: feature request: highlight globals By: Benjamin CABE on Thu, 05 April 2012 12:46
		Re: feature request: highlight globals By: Benjamin CABE on Sun, 08 April 2012 13:52
		Re: feature request: highlight globals By: Jay Carlson on Mon, 09 April 2012 11:40

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