Le 25/01/2016 11:34, KatolaZ a écrit :
I would say that having embedded subprograms in a function is not the
best thing one can do in C

Every block is a subprogram. The block in a do loop, the conditional block in an if or while statement. The subprogram blocks are everywhere in C; they're a basic construct of the language. I don't see why plain blocks woud be bad, ie neither conditional, nor loop. And I also consider a sane practice to restrict the scope of variables as much as it makes sense.

It's just that there are two features that most C programmers never learn or quickly forget:

    1) blocks don't need to be conditional or loop,
    2) they can contain declarations.

On the contrary, the ability to declare variables outside of a block, in the middle of instructions, like in C++ is a nonsense; it is an incitation to loose programming.

I personnally re-discovered this very nice features a few years ago after having used the equivalent in Ada.

    Didier

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