On 1-May-07, at 2:25 PM, Andy Dent wrote:
>
> 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.
> I've even used blocks just introduced to provide local scoping, that
> aren't within a conditional or loop.
>
> Pascal is fading into very dim memory. (pardon the pun).
As are many other languages (Adabas/Natural, PL1, various assembly
languages, 4D and lord knows what else)
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