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From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?)
Date: 1999/02/02
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In article <794gg7$ib$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> I'm not entirely sure I can defend this aversion to
> declare blocks in a rational way, so if anyone has a
> rationale as to why its perfecly acceptable to have
> declare blocks liberally sprinkled throught their code,
> I'm all ears.

Why on earth does it need a rationale to use a feature
in the language that is obviously useful and has an ancient
and well accepted understanding as useful (blocks were
after all in Algol-60).

THe principle of using blcoks to make temporaries as
local as possible is of course familiar to any programmer
in an algol style language.

People can have allergies to anything, but a person with
an allergy to strawberries cannot reasonably ask a normal
healthy person to give a rationale for eating strawberries.

In this case we have a thread that clearly shows a use of
declare, and the response "that's nice, but I don't like
to use declare blocks" is indeed not convincing!

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