> Declaring a new variable must be done at the beginning of a new scope in
> C. Were not in C++ anymore Toto... :) The addition of the braces
> creates a new scope and therefore makes the declaration valid. I do this
> all the time in switch statements.
So would you say that good coding would always have the braces like:
switch(something) {
case x: {
sometask1();
break;
}
case y: {
sometask2();
break;
}
}
>
> -Paul
>
> PS: now that I think of it, you can't do in in C++ either. The
> declaration would be there in one case but not the others so what would
> the compiler do after the switch?
>
>
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