Variable declaration and initialisation. Variables are untyped, as far as we can tell so far.

I HAS A <var> ITZ ...

• Every variable is an array.
• ITZ … has been reserved for future usage and should not be used (except possibly for initialization of single-element arrays)
• At present, all arrays are heterogeneous (they can have different types of values in them). This may change in the future!

All values are typed, and the types are:

• NUMBAR (signed integer, at least 32 bits wide)
• YARN (string)
• ARRAY (contains NUMBARs and/or YARNs and/or ARRAYs)

Currently the interpreter and/or compiler does type checking at compile and/or runtime. This may get nailed down to one or the other in future recommendations.

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The keyword ARRAY needs to be replaced with BUKKIT. BUKKIT is far more LOLCAT.

Totally agree with the BUKKIT; came to suggest the same thing.

I like BUKKIT, too, and in addition I'd like to suggest a slightly weird change. I think if you could have 3 “implicitly-defined” default variables whose types were type names and which could be used without declaration, it would make for more “readable” LOLCODE.

By this, I mean that if you referenced or assigned a variable named NUMBAR, YARN, or BUKKIT, it would be implicitly declared as a variable of the appropriate type. That way, you could have statements like:

GIMMEH NUMBAR

LOL NUMBAR IN-MAH BUKKIT R YARN

Just a thought. kthxbye.