Re: Automatic Variables Local rather than Global (Proposal)

[Bret Victor <bret@...>]

The creator of Ruby thought as you did.  He later realized that
implicit declaration of locals was the "single biggest design flaw"
in the language.  The problem lies with conflating declaration
and assignment.  See:

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2005-08/msg00139.html