Hi, On 2018-08-22 16:56:15 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On 22/08/2018 14:02, Andres Freund wrote: > > - do we want to make declarations at arbitrary points errors? It's > > already a warning currently. > > While there are legitimate criticisms, it's a standard feature in C, > C++, and many other languages, so I don't see what we'd gain by fighting it.
I personally don't really care - for C there's really not much of a difference (contrast to C++ with RAII). But Robert and Tom both said this would be an issue with moving to C99 for them. I don't want to hold up making progress here by fighting over this issue. Greetings, Andres Freund