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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:23:12 -0500, Robert A Duff wrote:

> Anyway, the strong syntactic separation between declarations
> and statements makes no sense in a language where declarations
> are executable code.  I think it's just wrong-headed thinking
> inherited from Pascal.

It still does have sense in a language with lexical scopes. You need some
syntactically recognizable point where all things of the same scope become
usable.

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