>> On 02/05/2007, at 12:04 AM, Norman Palardy wrote:
>>
>>> This starts to border on religion.
>>> How the heck did people write good software in C, Pascal or RB when
>>> this capability was not available ?
>>
>> As far as C is concerned, I've used block-scoped declarations for
>> years.
>
> Yes.
> Forcing a new cope level with {} was a trick you could use.
> Many did.Block scoping was more a C++ trick to be honest. It allowed for better control of object destructors. C doesn't really have so much speed loss with variables, if you don't initialise it to a value.... I suppose tighter scopnig of variables may make the optimisers job easier, though. -- http://elfdata.com/plugin/ "String processing, done right" _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
