Choosing a Data Style

In deciding your personal style for handling variables, you need to consider several factors:

• Do you want to declare a specific type for every variable? Or do you want to use default types?
  
  
• Do you want the convenience (and the risk) of automatic variable allocations? Or are you willing to declare every variable in order to make your code more reliable?
  
  
• How do you feel about Basic shortcuts such as the DefInt statement or the type-declaration characters?

Let’s look at several popular data declaration styles.