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From: Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Top 10 Language Constructs (Ada)
Date: 2000/07/15
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"Samuel T. Harris" <samuel_t_harris@Raytheon.com> writes:

> My number one is block statements.

Which of course have been available since the year dot .. for example,
CORAL 66

  'begin'
     'integer' x;
     x := 2;
     y := x;  "y is external to the block .."
  'end'

or C

  {
    int x;
    x = 2;
    y = x;
  }

Personally I find myself using the C version very frequently, no doubt
if I still had to write CORAL I would do so there too .. spare me,
spare me