Re: IDL wish list (continued)

[rfinch(at)water.ca.gov (Ralph Finch)]

 > This is part of the fundamental nature of IDL and would be
 > difficult if not impossible to resolve without the use of either
 > explicit or implicit typing.

Not really, all you have to do is arrange for the interpreter to
warn users that a variable they are using has not been explicitly set
to a value.  MATLAB does this and doesn't require typing.
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