On Oct 18, 2010, at 6:42 AM, Florian Klaempfl wrote:
Am 18.10.2010 14:58, schrieb Frank Church:
It's just a matter of readability, e.g. having a variable declared in
two blocks with the same name can cause you a lot of headache:
So don't allow identical names.
Ada allows exactly this feature (declaration within a block) and it is
extremely simple and not the least confusing. It's also an easy and
error-free way to manage dynamic memory allocation without using
pointers.
Jerry
procedure p;
begin
...
begin
var i : integer;
...
...
...
i:=12341234;
...
...
...
...
end;
...
...
...
begin
var i : integer;
...
writeln(i); <--- this i is not the same as above so i does not
contain 12341234 but it contains probably some garbage.
end;
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