Re: General C++ improvements

[James W. W. <ja...@wr...>]

Roger Holmes <rog...@mi...> wrote:

>When I am writing new routines or modifying new ones I am very tempted
>to adopt the normal C++ style of not declaring variables until they 
>are needed,
>which usually is by setting the variable to an initial value, thereby avoiding
>many cases of uninitialised variables.
>
>Are there any reasons for not doing so now?

One small problem with that approach is that one can easily end up 
with a variable name being declared in multiple scopes within the 
function.  Then if I'm using the CodeWarrior debugger, it's hard to 
tell which version of the variable I should be looking at.  (Maybe 
other debuggers handle this situation better?)
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