Op 2005-10-04, Steve Holden schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Paul Rubin wrote: >> Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>>Or you just code without declaring, intending to go >>>>back and do it later, and invariably forget. >>> >>>What's the problem, the compilor will allert you >>>to your forgetfullness and you can then correct >>>them all at once. >> >> >> Thiat in fact happens to me all the time and is an annoying aspect of >> Python. If I forget to declare several variables in C, the compiler >> gives me several warning messages and I fix them in one edit. If I >> forget to initialize several variables in Python, I need a separate >> test-edit cycle to hit the runtime error for each one. > > Well I hope you aren't suggesting that declaring variables makes it > impossible to forget to initalise them. So I don;t really see the > relevance of this remark, since you simply add an extra run to fix up > the "forgot to declare" problem. After that you get precisely one > runtime error per "forgot to initialize".
Declaration and initialisation often go together. So the fixup to declare is often enough a fixup for the initialisation too. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
