From: Martin Coxall <pseudo.meta@...>
Date: 2006-10-16T23:12:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Non-declared variables

On 10/16/06, Avatar <acampbellb@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to hear people's opinions on the ability to use variables
> without declaring them in dynamic languages like Ruby.

You mean without declaring their *type*, right?

It's more accurate to say simply that variables have no type in Ruby;
Rather the variable's contents have a type.

In any case, Ruby requires that variables be declared before use just
as any decent language worth the name does.

Martin