Re: continue/repeat...until false dichotomy

["Kelley, Brian" <bkelley@...>]

On Feb 17, 2010, at 4:27 AM, Alex Davies wrote:
> The only problem is there is no clear and obvious way the code should 
> function, so my stance has always been throw a meaningful error.  It's not a 
> hard one to catch at all, requiring only a minor modification to the 
> parser..

Why is it not clear and obvious that a newly-created variable's value will be nil unless it has been assigned some other value?

People can use 'if' to skip assignments, also.  I don't hear people worrying needlessly about that, or clamoring for the compiler to emit warnings in those cases.

-bhk