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Icon and Unicon do not require strict static typing of variables as does languages like [[Pascal]], nor does it require type definitions to reserve space such as in languages such as [[C]]. In fact, variables may happily change type from one moment to the next. Knowing this you might expect that declarations are non-existent.
Declarations are optional and any undeclared variables are either (a) parameters to procedures or (b) local to procedures. This design decision ensured that Icon/Unicon are not susceptible to the kind of side-effects that the global nature of variables in [[SNOBOL4]] led to.
Still, declarations are desirable for clarity and needed for a number of special cases:
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