declaration of variables?

[Mike Meyer]

Jp Calderone <exarkun at intarweb.us> writes:
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 06:05:09PM +0100, Andr? Jonsson wrote:
> > Being a Python-n00b, in the midst of this ?: discussion, it occurred to me 
> > that Python does not require variables be delcared before use.
> > Surely, in an elightened language like Python it shouldn't be possible to 
> > do this kind of error without the compiler complaining.
> 
>   "enlightened" language?  Hrm.  Dynamic, sure... OO, okay... functional,
> sometimes!  But "enlightened"?

Consider the situation in another common P-named interpreter, where an
unassigned variable has the value of the empty string, which also has
the value of 0.

Compared to that, Python is enlightened!

        <mike
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