Re: Non-declared Variables

gnorik@gmail.com
24 Oct 2006 17:34:39 -0400

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From: gnorik@gmail.com
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 24 Oct 2006 17:34:39 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 06-10-064
Keywords: design
Posted-Date: 24 Oct 2006 17:34:39 EDT

I don't think that it is a good idea when language definition allows
you to use variables without declaration.
First of all, it leads to bugs which is rather hard to find.
You may do a type, and write, let's say instead of myvar, mywar, and
thus mywar most likely don't equal to myvar (probably it will be
initialized as zero) you already have a bug.
Secondly, when people used to declare variables they know what they are
doing. They know that if they need a one byte variable, or two, or four
byte variable, then they don't have to allocate space for a whole
string, as done in most of scripting languages starting from basic, and
still in perl, tcl, etc...


Regards


Norayr Chilingaryan


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> I would like to hear people's opinions on the ability to use variables
> without declaring them in dynamic languages like Ruby.

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