> If you misspell a variable name Lua will happily initialize it to nil and run with it. This almost always results in subtle incorrect behavior instead of an e

> If you misspell a variable name Lua will happily initialize it to nil and run with it. This almost always results in subtle incorrect behavior instead of an error. If your code editor doesn't warn you that you're potentially reading a variable before writing to it, then you need a new code editor.