Hi, On 2018-12-13 20:53:23 +0000, Andrew Gierth wrote: > >>>>> "Andres" == Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > > >> This code in particular was very heavily into using mixed > >> declarations and code throughout. Removing those was moderately > >> painful. > > Andres> I wonder if we should instead relax those restriction for the > Andres> largely foreign pieces of code? > > Do we have any reason for the restriction beyond stylistic preference?
No. Robert and Tom were against allowing mixing declarations and code, a few more against // comments. I don't quite agree with either, but getting to the rest of C99 seemed more important than fighting those out at that moment. Greetings, Andres Freund
