James A. Donald wrote: > I am contemplating getting into Python, which is used by engineers I > admire - google and Bram Cohen, but was horrified to read > > "no variable or argument declarations are necessary." > > Surely that means that if I misspell a variable name, my program will > mysteriously fail to work with no error message. > > If you don't declare variables, you can inadvertently re-use an > variable used in an enclosing context when you don't intend to, or > inadvertently reference a new variable (a typo) when you intended to > reference an existing variable. > > What can one do to swiftly detect this type of bug?
It's a fundamental part of python, as well as many other scripting languages. If you're not comfortable with it, you might try a language that forces you to declare every variable first like java or C++. Otherwise, in python, I'd recommend using variable names that you can easily spell. Also do plenty of testing of your code. It's never been an issue for me, although it would be nicer if python were case-insensitive, but that is never going to happen. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
