Re: Localized Variable Declaration

["martin.m.dowie" <martin.m.dowie@ntlworld.com>]

"David Rasmussen" <pinkfloydhomer@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3CF78D3D.3030400@yahoo.com...
> int whatever(int foo)
> {
>      ...
>      ...
>      { // local scope starts here
>           int local = 42;
>           ....
>      } // and ends here
>      ...
> }

now you have 3 lines not 1! ;-)

> So you can do the same in C++ as in Ada, and more. It's usually the
> other way around. And usually Ada has a good reason for doing things
> they way it does it. I just don't understand the justification for this
> limitation. Consider this:

All this is boils down to a choice of syntax and Ada is always going to
look heavy on that count - is there any area that doesn't have Ada coming
in with more keystrokes/source lines? It had never struck me as being
terribly important, if a routine is getting complex enough to warrant nested
within nested declarative blocks then I usually replace one or more with
local
subprograms (pragma Inlined if really necessary).