Any response to my DECLARE question

[Kenneth Brody]

Jeff Harrison wrote:
[...]
> You mentioned that the purpose of declare extern is to tell filePro that
> there is a variable in existence on another table that will be calling this
> one... While that will usually be true, it does not have to be.  You could
> take advantage this feature as a way of using long variable names without
> explicitly casting them.  I have actually done this on occasion.
[...]

Why not just DECLARE it without any length or type, as in:

   DECLARE myvar

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