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In ruby, and I think most dynamic languages, this type of typo is likely to raise an exception. It could hurt, but a simple test run is likely to discover it.

The way javascript (which is what is linked) handles this, as amirhhz described it, leads to silent errors which could turn out a lot worse.

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Yes, but it would raise the exception at run-time, and only when the particular path is taken.

There's actually no exception, it just returns "undefined" and the if statement fails. That's why it's such a deadly bug -- no exception, and path dependent. Combine that with the async nature of JS and it's going to be a long night tracking that one down

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