Re: "static" declaration

["Olivier Lefevre" <address@hidden>]

From: "Reginald Braithwaite-Lee" <raganwald@yahoo.com>
> First, declaring variables is essential, but declaring type is not.
> This eliminates the common bug of introducing a new variable with a
> typo.

Indeed I remember someone complaining very strongly about this "loophole"
in Erlang (it might have been on c.l.f or on the Erlang mailing list)
and others chiming in about how they try to avoid the trap.

-- O.L.