Is SSAS Too Lenient on MDX Syntax?

I started my career in IT as a Visual Basic application programmer. VB had the wonderful/horrible data type called a Variant. Variant data types were great in that you could store anything in a Variant. Variants were horrible because you could store anything as a Variant. Because you could store anything in a Variant, you never knew what you had. As I matured as a programmer, I grew to hate the Variant data type. I grew to hate scripting. I grew to love strongly typed languages. Applications written in strongly-typed languages are much easier to maintain, much easier to understand, and are much less likely to incur run-time errors that would have been discovered when the application was initially compiled.