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

Paul Rubin wrote: 
Antoon Pardon <apardon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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".

regards
 Steve
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