> Unintentional variable capture is simply a bug. That's a useful statement if you're discussing programming within a specific language, not so useful to argue

> Unintentional variable capture is simply a bug. That's a useful statement if you're discussing programming within a specific language, not so useful to argue the language is fine as it is. Funny you should mention array overflow; for years (we) C programmers insisted it was 'simply a bug'. Then again, lack of hygiene enables anaphora, but lack of bounds checking has no such redeeming qualities.