Copying your "tone" in my answer below...
On 26/04/2026 01:46, Warren Postma via fpc-pascal wrote:
Not having inline variables means that our strongly typed language
Pascal doesn't have as precise a scoping of variables as possible,
preventing read access before initialization, which is a major smell
in the pascal language and compiler designs.
<sarcasm> Yes, </sarcasm> Just look at JS to see how well it works
function a() { "use strict"; var x = b; var b; return b;} a();
The above compiles and runs just fine. Clearly "preventing read access
before initialization".
<sarcasm> But, its very popular, so we should definitely copy that
</sarcasm>
IIRC JS has now a linter, trying to get rid of the problems they
created. But you want that we go introduce some part of that.... Really?
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