Markus,
What does the provided URL have to do with anything?
It provides a bit more background information on the evolution for the
support of variable declarations within compound statements, doesn't it?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/288441/variable-declaration-placement-in-c
It is a discussion by people not involved in creating the C Standard
about why they thought the change was made.
As somebody who was involved I can tell you that the reason for the
change was compatibility with C++.
The reason for the original restriction was a belief that mixing
statements/declarations made code less readable (which may or
may not be true, I don't know of any empirical evidence one way
or the other).
--
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Knowledge Software Ltd blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com
Software analysis http://www.knosof.co.uk
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