Re: "no variable or argument declarations are necessary."

"Michael" <ms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> James A. Donald wrote:
> > On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 17:11:13 -0400, Jean-Francois Doyon
> > James A. Donald:
> >> > Surely that means that if I misspell a variable name, my program will
> >> > mysteriously fail to work with no error message.
> >> No, the error message will be pretty clear actually :)
> > Now why, I wonder, does this loop never end :-)
> > egold = 0
> > while egold < 10:
> > ego1d = egold+1
>
> I know (hope! :-) that's a tongue-in-cheek question, however the answer as
> to why that's not a problem is more to do with development habits rather
> than language enforcement. (yes with bad habits that can and will happen)
>
> [snipped description of test-driven development culture]

As an aside, more to the point of the specific erroneous example is the lack of the standard python
idiom for iteration:

for egold in xrange(10):
pass

Learning and using standard idioms is an essential part of learning a language; python is no
exception to this.

George


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