11-25-2022, 12:00 AM
(11-24-2022, 11:33 PM)TerryRitchie Wrote: I never understood why new concepts and commands are sometimes looked upon as changing the old ways, especially for something useful like OPTION _EXPLICIT.LOL you almost detected that "Unknown identifier" was my favorite error message from that compiler in high school.
I use it because it makes coding easier. The first time I encountered a high-level language that forced variable declaration (Turbo Pascal 3.01) I was hooked. It's just a no-brainer to have such a mechanism in place in my opinion of course.