c99/c++ localised variable definition

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 5:33 PM +0000 1/28/05, Paul Richards wrote:
>
>People used to programming in C++ or Perl (and many others) are
>used to defining variables as near to use as possible. This has
>never been possible before in C, but now with c99 it is.

Well, you could get a similar effect by creating a new scope.

>Personally, I find the c++/perl convention to be much less error
>prone and more intuitive and since c99 now supports it too it seems
>the standards body sees the benefits of this approach as well.
>
>So, are we going to start allowing this feature to be used in
>FreeBSD since it would require a pretty major change to style(9).

I used to do it that way (by creating new scopes and defining
variables in there).  The present style(9) caused me to abandon
that practice, and in hindsight I think my routines are probably
better off with all the variable-declarations grouped together.

I don't feel too strongly about it, but I would slightly prefer
that style(9) stay as it is on this.

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