From: John Max Skaller (skaller_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-05-31 19:18:55
joel de guzman wrote:
>
> > In which case, can't the suntax just be
> >
> > var = expression;
If 'var' was declared in an outer scope,
you wouldn't be able to tell if this was an assignment
or a declaration of a new variable without examining the
outer scope. It would also make it hard to generate error
messages for bad spelling:
my_variable = 1;
myvariable = 2; // woops, forgot the '_'
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