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• Subject: Re: Automatic Variables Local rather than Global (Proposal)
• From: Bret Victor <bret@...>
• Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 19:19:51 +0000 (UTC)

The creator of Ruby thought as you did. He later realized that implicit declaration of locals was the "single biggest design flaw" in the language. The problem lies with conflating declaration and assignment. See: http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2005-08/msg00139.html 

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