On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 06:14:04PM +0000, James Nelson wrote:
I don't believe that having var and implicit keywords would make the language less flexible -- they are completely optional, remember. If you omit "implicit none" from the beginning of your program you can write your program like you do now, implicit variable declarations and all.
At which scope should this statement operate? Should it only be allowed at the top of a module (like __future__ imports), or should it operate on a per-function basis? Doing this for the whole process, as i think your usage of the term "program" implies, sounds like a very bad idea to me. Anyway, i think that this idea just doesn't "fit" Python, and "implicit none" kind-of reminds me of the strict mode in Javascript. But other than in Javascript, i don't think Python actually *needs* this. As said, linters cover these problems for me. -- Markus