Feedback and comments on ARM proposal (original) (raw)

Neal Gafter neal at gafter.com
Sat Mar 14 23:29:26 PDT 2009

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Jeremy Manson <jeremy.manson at gmail.com> wrote:

It is probably worth pointing out that the flip side of this in our discussions was that variables are also block-scoped, so there was wiggle room for people who believed that this whole issue was secretly a scoping issue for variables and didn't have anything at all to do with blocks of code.  

Agreed, though there is one context in which it is possible to jump into the scope of a local variable declaration without "executing" the declaration: the switch statement.

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