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[Sean Kelly]

Don Clugston wrote:
> 
>> Pointers are scary! 
> 
> I've heard this for decades, and I still don't really understand it.
> I've never found pointers to be worse than uninitialised variables.
> (in fact, I think many problems attributed to pointers are actually 
> caused by uninitialised variables).
> 
> And the absolute worst is languages that don't require you to declare a 
> variable before you use it. That's _really_ scary.

I agree on both counts.  And as for the latter... it's why I think 
languages like Lua are next to useless, as debugging them is an absolute 
nightmare.


Sean