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From: David Rasmussen <pinkfloydhomer@yahoo.com>
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I am a C++ programmer learning Ada. So far, I love it. It is more or 
less the answer to my prayers. The only thing I miss which I think 
really enhances readability and minimizes bugs (two things that Ada 
excels at), is the ability to declare a variable "anywhere". In C++ we 
can declare a variable exactly when it is needed, which is easier to 
read, than to have to scroll up to the beginning of the function to see 
what type/size/whatever, a variable is. Also, it directly makes it 
possible more often to initialize a variable with a sensible value, 
because it is available, which it wouldn't be at the start of the 
function/scope.

Is there anyway to address this problem?

/David