On Wed, 05 Mar 2014 02:28:17 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> You don't need to have static typing to have declared variables. The >> two are independent. E.g. one might have a system like Python, except >> you have to declare your variables before using them: >> >> global x >> local a >> a = x+1 > > Aside: If you declare your locals, you shouldn't need to declare your > globals. Though I could imagine a rule that global rebinding still needs > to be declared, but you certainly shouldn't need to declare nonlocal if > you have a local declaration. Absence of local => nonlocal.
You missed that the purpose of the declaration is to avoid accidental typos: local process procces = 1234 With declarations, the compiler can catch some typos at compile-time. -- Steven D'Aprano http://import-that.dreamwidth.org/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
