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

[David Froble]

Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.
> 

So, who died, and left you god of variables?

It's worked for over 40 years for me.

YMMV