On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 11:40:44AM -0400, Chapman Flack wrote: > I'm in sympathy with all of those points. I've never believed that the > arbitrary separation of declaration from use that was forced by C < 99 > made anything more readable. If the project were started now from scratch, > I would be all in favor of declaring at first use. > > But I think Tom's concern about backpatching hazards may carry a lot > of weight in practice.
I think effectively it would need to be run on all supported versions, which means the risk of introducing errors would have to be very low. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com If only the physical world exists, free will is an illusion.
