From: Nate Wiger <nwiger@...>
Date: 2006-10-18T03:20:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Non-declared variables

Kevin Olemoh wrote:
> Its probably best to have a strict option like in perl and VB.net.  If
> I am understanding what Daniel is saying properly and ruby works in
> such a way that what should be a typo that generates an error is
> accepted by ruby as a legit variable in spite of the fact that the
> programmer really meant to say count it creates a set of situations
> that are very error prone and that is not a good thing.

I very much agree, being a longtime Perl programmer (10+ years). When 
"use strict" was first introduced, a very similar discussion ensued on 
the Perl lists about how it was going to be cumbersome/etc. As Kevin 
says, years later the first thing everyone says in Perl-land is to "use 
strict", so much that many discussions have considered turning it on by 
default.

My one comment would be to use a common idiom in other languages, like 
"var", rather than "n".

BTW, howdy all (first post).

Cheers,
Nate