coding style - where to declare variables

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 17:50:06 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 00:08:00 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net>
> declaimed the following:
> 
>>I Java terms, all Python values are boxed. That's a very usual pattern
>>in virtually all programming languages (apart from FORTRAN).
>>
>>
> 	FORTRAN, C, COBOL, BASIC, Pascal, ALGOL, BCPL, REXX, VMS DCL, 
> probably R, Matlab, APL.
> 
> 	I never encountered the term "boxed" until trying to read some of 
> the O'Reilly books on Java.
> 
> 	In my world, Java and Python are the ones that are not "common".

Indeed. Its not just older languages from the 60s and 70s with value-type 
variables. Newer languages intended as systems languages, like Rust and 
Go, do the same.



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Steven D'Aprano
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