Ryan Anderson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:27:36AM +0100, Fredrik Kuivinen wrote: > >>On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 04:01:56PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >>>Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se> writes: >>> >>> >>>>I have also been working on a blame program. >> >>... >> >> >>>BTW, these days I always compile things with >>> >>> -Wall -Wdeclaration-after-statement >>> >>>which caught quite a many. >> >>Just out of curiosity, why do you prefer declarations before >>statements? > > > I won't speak for Junio, but the explanations I've heard in the past are > basically: > > 1) It keeps all declarations in one spot. > 2) If your function is complicated enough to not need a variable until > fairly far into the function, it probably should be two (or more) functions. > 3) Not all compilers support it. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Tue Feb 28 20:08:44 2006
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