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From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
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Subject: Re: c99/c++ localised variable definition
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On Mon, 2005-Jan-31 08:36:30 -0600, Ryan Sommers wrote:
>all it takes to force yourself to think "do I really need this?" Or you 
>might look at your other declarations and realize, "hey I could use this 
>instead."

Finding a stray int (or whatever) that doesn't appear to be live at a
particular point and re-using it for something unrelated isn't
necessarily good coding practice either.  This can confuse someone who
is quickly scanning the code - especially if the variable name was
mnemonic and the re-use doesn't match it's name.

It's unfortunate that C doesn't have any way to define the end of a
variable's scope (or lifetime) apart from blocks.

-- 
Peter Jeremy