Not necessarily.
This works:
syms y(x)
y(x) = x^2;
as will this:
syms y x
y(x) = x^2;
while this will throw an error:
syms y
y(x) = x^2;
I default to defining all variables in a syms declaration, just to be safe (and compulsive).
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