From: ndrochak@... (Nick Drochak) Date: 2001-05-24T01:41:25+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:15601] How to avoid spelling mistakes of variable names Since Ruby does not require a variable to be declared, do people find that they often have bugs related to mistyping variable names? I run into this problem somewhat often when programming in Visual FoxPro. Now that I am starting in Ruby, I am wondering what others have done to avoid the problem. Is there an "Option Explicit" for Ruby like in Visual Basic? Thanks, Nick Drochak