variable declaration

[Michael Tobis]

> that's a nice theory, but since the decorator line is executed by the
inter-
> preter, it's a little weak.

Well, uh, who else would process it?

"use strict' and 'my epsilon' in perl are executed by the perl
interpreter as well, but they have a declarative flavor.

A decorator is a modifier to a subsequent binding, and it modifies the
reference and not the referent. So how is it anythng but declarative?
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