From: "martin.m.dowie" <martin.m.dowie@ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: Localized Variable Declaration
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 14:50:54 +0100
Date: 2002-05-31T14:50:54+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adLJ8.776$i01.53350@news8-gui.server.ntli.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3CF77CDA.3090805@yahoo.com
"David Rasmussen" <pinkfloydhomer@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3CF77CDA.3090805@yahoo.com...
> Oh sure, but that is pretty tedious, compared to just a one line
> variable declation. The point is, to be a bit extreme, that centralized
> variable declations (e.g. at the "beginning" of the function) as done in
> C and Pascal, are evil. Variables should be declared close to where they
> are needed, IMO.
Sure, but that's what you get with a declare ... begin ... end. You also get
to delimit the scope in the example I gave there could have been 100 more
lines after the 'end' that just didn't need visibility of the local
variable. Can
you do that with a 'one line variable declaration'?
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2002-05-31 13:24 Localized Variable Declaration David Rasmussen
2002-05-31 13:32 ` martin.m.dowie
2002-05-31 13:38 ` David Rasmussen
2002-05-31 13:50 ` martin.m.dowie [this message]
2002-05-31 14:48 ` David Rasmussen
2002-05-31 15:26 ` martin.m.dowie
2002-05-31 15:45 ` David Rasmussen
2002-05-31 18:30 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-02 2:21 ` steve_H
2002-06-02 9:59 ` David Rasmussen
2002-06-02 15:06 ` Robert Dewar
2002-06-02 15:27 ` David Rasmussen
2002-06-02 23:25 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-02 23:28 ` David Rasmussen
2002-06-02 23:52 ` martin.m.dowie
2002-06-02 23:58 ` David Rasmussen
2002-06-03 11:22 ` martin.m.dowie
2002-05-31 15:51 ` Mark Johnson
2002-05-31 17:47 ` martin.m.dowie
2002-05-31 21:53 ` tmoran
2002-06-02 15:10 ` Robert Dewar
2002-06-02 15:28 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2002-06-02 18:04 ` tmoran
2002-06-07 3:32 ` Richard Riehle
2002-05-31 15:59 ` Darren New
2002-06-02 15:20 ` Robert Dewar
2002-06-03 5:29 ` Michael Bode
2002-06-03 6:17 ` Preben Randhol
2002-06-04 10:26 ` Simon Wright
2002-06-03 13:59 ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-05 8:36 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-06-03 17:29 ` Pascal Obry
2002-06-16 23:34 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-04 12:13 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-05-31 19:00 ` Mike Silva
2002-06-01 0:58 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-31 18:04 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-05-31 15:06 ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-01 14:53 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-02 21:18 ` Florian Weimer
2002-06-11 7:16 ` David Thompson
2002-05-31 18:30 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-02 1:52 ` Stefan Skoglund
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