Re: Pointers to "why C behaves like that ?"

"Joachim Durchholz" <joachim_d@gmx.de>
24 Nov 2002 18:37:08 -0500

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From: "Joachim Durchholz" <joachim_d@gmx.de>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 24 Nov 2002 18:37:08 -0500
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 02-11-059 02-11-087 02-11-089 02-11-111 02-11-126
Keywords: types, design
Posted-Date: 24 Nov 2002 18:37:08 EST

+ [I don't see a useful difference between a system that requires that you
+ declare everything, vs. one that doesn't but produces undeclared variable
+ warnings that the programmer treats like error messages. -John]


thp@cs.ucr.edu wrote:
> Some of my students are Pythonistas. They insist that the lack of
> such assistance from the compiler in detecting typos has never been an
> issue. (I wouldn't know.)


Do these students have *serious* programming experience? Are their
programs large enough that long variable/function/module names make
sense? If the answer to either question is "no", I'd consider their
experience to be unrelated to everyday practice ;-)


Regards,
Joachim


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