OpenEuphoria

Re: A question about certain language features

• Posted by David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM> Feb 15, 2002
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Robert wrote:

> In situations where it really doesn't matter how 
> something is written, I think there are advantages to
> reducing the number of choices.

But in this case, it's not a matter of cosmetics. It actually *does* matter 
how (and where) something is written. By splitting the declaration from the 
assignment:

   integer foo
   ...
   foo = 123 -- default value

you increase the chances that the code will encounter an uninitialized 
variable. And when that happens, the Euphoria interpreter stops, and anything 
the user was doing is permanantly lost.

That's been my experience with Euphoria.

Isn't the end goal to provide users with robust applications?

-- David Cuny