On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 at 20:00:45 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 10/16/2013 8:37 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
I'm reasonably okay with dynamic languages so long as you can
require a
variable to be declared before it's used. Those that
implicitly declare on
first assignment are a nightmare however. I once spent an
entire day
debugging a Lua app that turned out to be broken because of a
typo in an
assignment. Never again.
Implicit declaration is such a bad idea; I wonder why it keeps
reappearing in every new dynamic language du jour.
Kind of like null : it is easy to implement.
