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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: About String
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:50:13 -0400
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Britt Snodgrass <britt.snodgrass@gmail.com> writes:

> I very much agree. The requirement for an explicit declaritive region
> is a very good thing for reasons of readability and maintainability.
> If variables could be declared anywhere in a procedure then it really
> would be a circus.

But you have not explained why you think declare blocks aid readability
and maintainability.  I don't think they do.  Is it just a matter of
taste, or a matter of what one is used to?

- Bob