implicitVars [Was: Re: Best Practices in Rev development]

[Ken Ray]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:31:31 +0100, Dave wrote:

> That's why I can't see the argument that's it's more typing, it 
> really isn't, and the bugs that can be caused by not declaring your 
> locals are so hard to find that I really can't see any reason not to 
> declare them.

Well, if you have a handler that is quite long (larger than one full 
screen's worth), you would have to keep scrolling up and down to copy 
and paste variables. If you copy and paste it may not be more *typing*, 
but it's still a PITA which you don't need to do if your variables are 
not declared. Personally, my feeling is "whatever works for you, works 
for you" - by that I mean that over the years of not declaring xTalk 
variables I have gotten to the point that the likelihood of me making 
an error in typing a variable is extremely low, so there really is very 
little benefit and a lot of extra hassle for me to start declaring 
them. But that's me... Anything that makes the process more efficient 
is good, IMHO.


Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
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