Talk:Petit Computer 3/@comment-15296152-20140916055642/@comment-5334617-20140916204626

I doubt they would remove the  statement from the language. But, if redimensioning arrays is possible (no indications yet whether that's true or not), and a program always initializes a variable before it reads it, that program would never technically need to.

And, it's not unusual for a subroutine to be called only once, and even designed such that it assumes that it's called only once. Initialization routines in particular.