Type mismatch errors not showing

[patfre (hmm)]

I for some reason can’t select the bug report category so i guess I’ll try here.

What i want to achieve

That it shows the type mismatch error when it should.

The issue
If i have code like the example below, i would expect it to show an error when i make the variable bar as it’s not a number but yet it does nothing.

type Foo = number;

local bar: Foo = "This is a string not a number, so where is the error then?"

As you can see in this screenshot there is no error.

Solutions i have tried so far

I have tried searching both google and dev forum to see if i can find a similar issue as this one, but i could not the only result that sounded like my issue was just a mistake in the type.

Recent

I used to do Luau a lot but i have been on a break, before i went on break there was no issues and everything worked as normal (about one month ago) but when i try to get it to work now that i need it, it just doesn’t. I really do not know why so any information will help.

[ali432567 (Alizabeth)]

Try adding

--!nonstrict

to the start and make sure your script isn’t disabled

[patfre (hmm)]

So i assume this must be new then since i never had to do this before. Thanks

[ali432567 (Alizabeth)]

I think it is in studio settings but you can toggle it so it is --!strict or --!nonstrict instead of --!nocheck

[patfre (hmm)]

So i did some digging and it appears that --!nonstrict is the default which doesn’t entirely make sense, it also doesn’t seam there is a way to choose the default

[ali432567 (Alizabeth)]

That seems so what I thought the setting was just a beta option making the default nonstrict but even with the beta enabled it seems that it doesn’t work