On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 03:35:41AM -0600, Gabriel Sechan wrote:
There's also a difference between bad style and a difference of opinion- I've heard people arguing (wrongly) that declare at use is better, I've never heard declare at top considered bad.
I'll see if I can dig up the reference, but I'm fairly sure the source of this is Bertrand Meyer.
99% of the C++ and Java code I've read, and 100% of the good C++ and Java, rarely if ever makes non top of block declarations. This isn't even an exageration- I honestly can't think of a piece of code written the other way that wasn't a buggy piece of shit.
We're definitely looking at different bodies of code. The Mono source declares variables at first use. However, I think more indiciative of better style is that there just aren't very many places where it makes any difference. There aren't a lot of large functions with a bunch of variables in them. But they are quite consistent about declaring variables where the first value is. I don't have a lot of C++ or Java code, but in what I do have, I can't find a single instance of a variable declared not at the point of it's first value. Dave -- KPLUG-LPSG@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
