It may be useful to allow declaring variables without type

Binarydepth via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jun 10 10:38:44 PDT 2015


On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 17:32:18 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 17:04:20 UTC, Binarydepth wrote:
>> I think that it could be useful to declare variables as Python 
>> does and statically too in the same language. Just make it's 
>> type when a value is assigned to the variable. This could 
>> allow a program to adjust it's data types accordingly to input 
>> when data is received from another program or an user.
>>
>> BD
>
> I disagree on the usefulness. I think this is one of the few 
> things Perl got right; the problem with automatically creating 
> variables is that you might create one when you're not 
> expecting to because of a typo.
>
> Atila

Well, do think that can be solved by making the compiler report 
unused variables ?

BD


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