Hi!

> If I'm to understand this RFC correctly, it is nothing more than a
> random suggestion someone posed in the form of a tweet and the author is
> saying why not add it since it's not hard to implement. So in summation

Well, here we go - this is why not add it, because it makes working with
such code harder without actually benefiting anybody.

> So this entire discussion can be summed up nicely with "Let's make the
> variable optional because... why not?".

"Why not" is usually not a very good principle of language design, IMO.
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