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"Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@on2.com> wrote in message
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>
> It's called "type-checking."  The rule is that an entity has to be
declared
> before being used.  This is a deliberate feature of the language, and it's
> there because the language designer wanted it to be there.  It has nothing
> to do with compiler technology (since you could have easily designed the
> language without that feature).

Right!  It's not for the compiler writer's benefit.  It's for the
programmer's benefit.
-- mark