Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Bear with an old man like me. I am used to the habit that variables get decleared at the begin of a block, not in the middle of it. When searching for the declaration of a variable, I find it a major PITA if I have to scan the whole source file instea dof just looking at the first few lines of a block.
This is why I use an advanced programmer's editor that brings me to the definition of the variable under the cursor with a single keystroke.
Not the compiler, but humans like me. I have just a small window of lines I can really focus on, and the smaller a block of code (including the needed variable declarations), the easier I get the impression I understand it.
In this case, it would be easier for you if the variable were declared next to the code that uses it.
This is what we do today, and I think it's ugly.
It is ugly, but much less ugly than variable declarations right in the middle of 200 lines of code.
This is where I disagree.