You don't have to declare a special variable for it if you don't care about its actual value.

你并不需要为它声明一个特定的变量,如果你不关心它的实际值。

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And when you declare a variable, whether as an argument or as literally a local variable, they only live inside of that function.

当你声明一个变量，不论是一个参数,还是一个局部变量，它们只存在函数的内部。

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It's a common mistake to make if you forget that I've actually declared that variable up top, but wait a minute, I know any time that I use a variable, I have to declare it.

这是一个通常犯的错误，如果你忘了,之前在前面已经声明了这个变量，等等，我知道在任何时候,我使用一个变量，我必须声明它。

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I declare a variable called n. I'm not giving it a value yet, so I had better be careful.

我申明一个变量n，我先不给它赋值，所以我最好小心点。

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What's going on underneath the hood is we'll see pictorially X today is that when I declare this X, this variable X here.

底下所做的，我们将看到,当我声明这个X，这个变量。

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When you declare a pointer yourself manually, you do say char * the variable name because recall that's the same thing that we did earlier but we called it instead string.

当你手动声明一个指针是，你可以说char，*，变量名字,因为那是我早些时候做的事情,但是我们叫它为字符串。

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But notice unlike a for loop, if you want to declare a variable or increment or decrement to variable, you've got to do that yourself.

但请注意不像for循环，如果你想声明一个变量,或者变大或变小一个变量，你需要自己完成。

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And actually, if I don't want to clobber, as we say, overwrite the value of my variable, ; I could declare another one and store the return value in Y; Y so now I have two ints in memory; X and Y, 3 one with two, one with three.

实际上，如果你不想彻底清除，像我们说的，覆盖那个变量的值，我可以申明另一个变量Y，并在Y中保存那个返回值;,现在内存中有两个int数，X和，一个的值为2，一个为。

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So there's no mention of int, and yet we've been saying for the past couple of lectures, that anytime you declare a variable, you absolutely have to specify its type.

这里没有提及int，我们在前几个演讲中,一直讨论的东西，任何时候你声明一个变量，你必须指定它的类型。

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So declare as we'll say a variable, a placeholder called counter.

首先要定义一个名为counter的，变量。

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