Re: variable declaration

[Nicola Pero]

> >> I think Adam already stated that :-)
> >
> > Not really, he said:
> >
> > "If you mean the guideline for GNUstep code, I'd rather not use it. 
> > Call me backward, but I still use a 2.95 compiler on a few of my 
> > systems :-)"
> >
> > So this means there is a suggestion not to use the feature, but no 
> > real guideline.
> 
> OK ... I'll chip in.
> 
> Adam, Nicola, and myself all think that it's best to keep the old style of 
> putting
> variable declarations only at the start of the block.
> 
> Irrespective of personal tastes, we all think that it is a good idea to do 
> this to
> maintain the ability to build GNUstep with older compilers.
> 
> I think you can consider this an 'official' guideline.  Certainly I would 
> consider
> it a bug to introduce code into the GNUstep libraries which stopped them 
> compiling
> with one of the commonly used compilers.

Yes - well said. :-)