On 14 Apr 2007 03:21:18 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > I would like to have something like the "option explicit" statement in > Visual Basic which turns on C-like checking for declaration of > variables. This is highly helpful for people who are coming from C/C+ > +, for people who are learning programming using Python,
As a C and C++ programmer (not a C/C++ programmer), I have to say that it doesn't bother me much. An optional feature like this would just annoy me if I encountered code using it. ... > where the user has inadvertantly typed "g" before "n" and will later > wonder why his application is not working as expected. Well, he won't *wonder* -- Python will be rather explicit about it. "Later" is the key word here -- this bug may lay around waiting for ten years before someone triggers it. /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu \X/ snipabacken.dyndns.org> R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
