On 08/15/2018 03:18 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
FWIW, the issue I've got with what C99 did is that you can narrow the
*start* of the scope of a local variable easily, but not the *end* of
its scope, which seems to me to be solving at most half of the problem.
To solve the whole problem, you end up needing a nested block anyway.
I do dearly miss the ability to easily limit the scope of a loop's
control variable to just the loop, eg
for (int i = 0; ...) { ... }
But AFAIK that's C++ not C99.
Agree completely.
cheers
andrew
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