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Re: why do some writers declare and define variables separately

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On 10/03/2013 02:37 PM, mt wrote:
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> I don't really know, and I am sure there is a good explanation for it. But from my own coding experience, I prefer to initialize variables when I declare them because if you don't, it may be some random number and you could use it and not get an error that its being used. 

I prefer to leave variables uninitialized if I cannot initialize them
with the value they're supposed to have the next time their value is
read. That's because any decent compiler will give you a warning if its
analysis of the code flow suggests that there's a possibility of the
value of that variable being read before it gets written. Initializing a
 variable with a value that's not actually intended to be used turns off
that warning, because the compiler doesn't know that you don't intend it
to be used.
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why do some writers declare and define variables separately yoodavid <odimegwudavid@yahoo.fr> - 2013-09-18 16:42 -0500
  Re: why do some writers declare and define variables separately mt <mahdert@gmail.com> - 2013-10-03 13:37 -0500
    Re: why do some writers declare and define variables separately James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2013-10-08 16:38 -0500
      Re: why do some writers declare and define variables separately ThosRTanner <ttanner2@bloomberg.net> - 2013-10-22 16:36 -0500
        Re: why do some writers declare and define variables separately Jens Schmidt <Jens.Schmidt-HH@gmx.de> - 2013-10-24 20:10 -0500
        Re: why do some writers declare and define variables separately Francis Glassborow <francis.glassborow@btinternet.com> - 2013-10-24 20:10 -0500
          Re: why do some writers declare and define variables separately Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker@t-online.de> - 2013-10-25 19:36 -0500

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