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Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2002 17:27:46 +0200
From: David Rasmussen <pinkfloydhomer@yahoo.com>
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Robert Dewar wrote:
> David Rasmussen <pinkfloydhomer@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<3CF9EC9F.9020203@yahoo.com>...
> 
>>I have already explained the benefits. I am not saying that this is 
>>always better, and I know it is largely a matter of taste. But I can 
>>assure you that there are real-life benefits in terms of ease of 
>>maintenance and readability to doing this. I think it comes down to what 
>>you're used to.
> 
> 
> 
> No, you have not explained why it is useful to have special
> syntax to say that the scope is from here to the end, rather than
> explicitly specifying the scope. I find that

Sure I haven't. And that wasn't what I said. This thread is _not_ about 
local scopes, for me. It is about declaring variables in a just-in-time 
fashion when they are needed. I didn't start talking about local scopes etc.

/David