On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 04:03:44PM +0100, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote: > I feel like this is the type of change where there's not much > discussion to be had. And the only way to resolve it is to use some > voting to gauge community opinion. > > So my suggestion is for people to respond with -1, -0.5, +-0, +0.5, or > +1 to indicate support against/for the change.
I'm +1 for the change, for these reasons: - Fewer back-patch merge conflicts. The decls section of long functions is a classic conflict point. - A mid-func decl demonstrates that its var is unused in the first half of the func. - We write Perl in the mixed decls style, without problems. For me personally, the "inconsistency" concern is negligible. We allowed "for (int i = 0", and that inconsistency has been invisible to me.
