From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-05-05T01:21:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Typo-checking instead of static typing

On 5/4/05, Jon A. Lambert <jlsysinc@alltel.net> wrote:
> Ben Giddings wrote:
> >
> > Static typing tends to find typos and brainos in code before it's
> > executed.
> >
> 
> My most frequent Ruby error:
> "NoMethodError: undefined method `foo' for nil:NilClass"
> 
> Not a typo, and arguably anything is a braino.
> 
> Fixed by asking oneself two questions
> 1) How in sam hill did that get set to nil?
> 2) Can method bar can return nil, if blah blah foozle wimble?
> 

That's about my most common error too (it ties with a parse error due
to a missing 'end' statement).