Bill Baxter wrote:

Thanks for the enlightment, I'm not that familiar with Lisp.

Anyway...

Wholeheartedly agreed.  I really do hope 'var' doesn't make it in...  I actually use...

What is the special case here?

    int i  = 5;       // scoped int
    int* j = new int...

Nope. But I also don't have a billion dollars to spend to convince people...

And I'm a bit surprised by your surprise, given that it creates a special...

Good point.  But have you heard *anyone* complain that they don't want to use...

If you wrote:

	int len = foo.length;

and foo.length was unsigned, isn't that...

Forget about ML, 'let' is used in Lisp, the granddaddy of all functional programming languages...

From a software maintenance and robustness standpoint I think that cuts both ways.  If I...

Not at all.

I think I must have presented the case for it very poorly...