From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2013-04-29T07:13:31+09:00
Subject: Re: BEGINNER -CLASS QUERY


On Apr 26, 2013, at 08:00 , sto.mar@web.de wrote:

> Am 24.04.2013 17:14, schrieb D. Deryl Downey:
>> 
>>> Sorry for the confusion. From my (obviously limited) knowledge of languages I
>>> thought that was a general rule. Let's change that then to "in Ruby, you don't
>>> declare variables...".
>> 
>> Change that to you don't *have to* declare variables. "You don't declare" would be misleading.
>> 
> 
> How would you declare a variable in Ruby? Do you mean the first
> assignment to it? To me, "declaring" signifies a type declaration
> like in C or Java.

again... "declaring" has NOTHING to do with types.