declaration of variables?

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth Jp Calderone:
  [...]
> With declarations, any time I wanted a new variable, I'd have to type an
> extra keyword somewhere.  Any time I decided I didn't need a variable any
> more, I'd have to go find where it was declared and remove it.  If you think
> this isn't a significant hurdle, I recommend you go read some of the larger
> C projects out there.  In many of them, you'll find all kinds of accrued
> variable cruft - variables people declared, used, and then discarded, but
> failed to remove the declarations.  [...]

I entirely agree that variable declarations cost more than their
value.

Your latter point of orphaned declarations, however, has an easy
answer: a compiler which issues errors for variables used but not
declared should also issue warnings for variables declared but not
used.

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