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From: Stefan Skoglund <stetson@ebox.tninet.se>
Subject: Re: Three simple questions
Date: 2000/10/13
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John McCabe wrote:
> At least one reason is for safety against misspelling. In
> case-sensitive languages e.g. in C, if I had
> 
>    int an_Int;
>    :
>    <various other declarations
> 
>    for (An_Int = 1; An_Int < 10; An_Int++)
>    :
>    blah blah
> 
> and compile this I will get an error because of undefined An_Int. The
> risk here is that I could just go to the declarations list and add:
> 
>    int An_Int;
> 
> rather than realising that I've just written an_Int incorrectly.

The problem in this case is implicit creation of new variables
and whats more those variables is always a int ie
the compiler wont bitch about the assignment.