declaration of variables?

[André Jonsson]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>         For the language's target environment (at least originally; Python is 
> changing from a common snake into a dragon in terms of usage <G>), not 
> having to declare variables is a positive feature... a library routine 
> could return an error code (numeric) or error message (string) and the 
> user doesn't have to know which in advance.
> 
>         If the goal is to detect any/all possible variable mis-uses at compile 
> time, may I suggest Ada?

Thanks for the thorough reply, probably the most practical I've gotten about this. 
Since my original post I have realised that it is basically, as you say, a matter of 
target environment. I guess I'm just used to having the compiler to catch those 
slip-ip errors. Can't say I like Ada or Pascal either but that's mostly because of 
other things.

/André