Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:33:27 +0000 From: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk> To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: c99/c++ localised variable definition Message-ID: <20050128173327.GI61409@myrddin.originative.co.uk>
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This is likely to he highly contraversial, since generally change tends to be in this project. People used to programming in C++ or Perl (and many others) are used to defining variables as near to use as possible. This have never been possible before in C, but now with c99 it is. Personally, I find the c++/perl convention to be much less error prone and more intuitive and since c99 now supports it too it seems the standards body sees the benefits of this approach as well. So, are we going to start allowing this feature to be used in FreeBSD since it would require a pretty major change to style(9). I noticed when trying to use this feature that we're not running the compiler with c99 fully supported yet so I guess that's perhaps the first step to discuss. -- Paul Richards
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