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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-11-19, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 11/19/2016 3:05 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>
>> 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).
>
> True.
>
> But there are also some extremely popular languages that do not have 
> such requirement including PHP and JavaScript.
>

I wouldn't hold up either of those languages as an example of how
programming languages should be implemented. :-)

Simon.

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