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From: winkler@Apple.COM (Dan Winkler)

Date: 6 Mar 88 17:56:38 GMT

Any change I make to HyperTalk from now on is guaranteed to be upward
compatible.  I might add new features, but I'll never break old
scripts.  Therefore, I'll never require variables to be declared.  I
may provide an optional way to declare them, perhaps with a type, so
that I can do type checking for you or, when I get to writing a
compiler, generate better code, but to uniformly require it would break
existing scripts.  Similarly, I'll never disallow unquoted literals,
although I may provide a way for you to turn them off when you want
to.



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I'll Never Make You Declare Variables