23 Jul 97 20:03, Thomas Maeder wrote to Asher Densmore-Lynn:
 AD>> Code readability, and it makes it easier on the compiler, but the
 AD>> fi the real one. Nothing but code readability. I programmed in
 AD>> BASIC fo long; it was very painful to convert to C, but once I
 AD>> managed, I was
 TM> I  find  code  more  readable if variables are declared where they are
 TM> used.
 Personal habits. I interpret, debug, and adapt many, -many- more 
lines of code than I write, so I want to be able to grasp functions quickly. 
Well-named variables all grouped together at the beginning of a function go a 
long way to doing that. (:
Asher Densmore-Lynn 
... Constants aren't;  variables don't.
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