[Implemented] Again on OPTION EXPLICIT

[luis]

I read about many people who are asking for that, and I can only add my voice to the choir.

I can live with any other PB shortcoming (not meant to be a criticism, any language has some) and with its amazing features too but the automatic declaration of the variable for any project of moderate complexity is really a pain in the *BEEP*.

Not only when writing the code initially, but when editing it later also.
In the last past days, while trying out PB, any time I swapped some part of code or reorganized a bunch of procedures I lost HALF of the time in moving around Protected variables and checking I haven't left some useless declaration where the variable no longer exist.

Add to this the obvious bugs when you mistype a variable, and that can be quite frustrating.

I really CANNOT use variables on the spot without declaring them and see them growing wild, losing control of them, a lot duplicated, mistyped, unused .... I feel bad only thinking of it.

I believe the PB team is working on that

viewtopic.php?t=15005

and I really hope so because this could be the only thing stopping me to use PB

Thank you for the attention (?) !

[dracflamloc]

Yep, this isnt a scripting language so declaring variables explicitly would be nice

[Jellybean]

I would like the behaviour of OPTION EXPLICIT, but I would like $TYPECHECK ON | OFF (Rapid-Q syntax/keywords) instead of the VB syntax/keywords.

[PB]

Please continue the discussion in the other thread linked above.