Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But serious, having to look all over the source instead of just a block > beginning decreases code readability a lot.
My experience is quite the opposite. Being forced to put declarations at the beginning of the block in practice means that people simply separate declarations from the first assignment. That uglifies and bloats the code, and seems to often cause bugs as well (because people seem to often not pay attention to what happens to a variable between the declaration and first assignment; having it simply _not exist_ before the first assignment helps quite a bit). -Miles -- Run away! Run away!
