[Info-vax] Variable declarations, was: Re: improving EDT

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-11-18, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>
> I've had many criticize me for not declaring all variables.  My response has 
> been "that's the compiler's job, why should I do such work?".  Nothing different 
> in having tools that attempt to do the grunt work for you.
>

They are absolutely right to criticise you IMHO. Declaring variables
is protection against some types of silly typing errors and in more
modern traditional style languages this is a requirement (or you
get an undeclared variable error during compilation).

Simon.

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