Tony wrote:
>
> With the rule in the subject line enforced, some of the benefit of being
> able to declare variables
> anywhere within a function, not just at the top, is lost. I don' t mean this
> to turn into a discussion
> about whether or not 'goto' should be used at all though. I find the error
> msg annoying. What are
> your opinions?

There are a couple of ways to deal with this:

1.  Replace this:

        int i = 0;

    with this:

        int i;
        i = 0;

2. Put some more of these { } in the code.
   That is, replace this:

      goto there;
      // ...
      int i = 0;
      // ...
      there:

   With this:

      goto there;
      // ...
      {
         int i = 0;
         // ...
      }
      // ...
      there:


In general, classes with constructors MUST be initialized,
so the general rule is good.  With the work arounds above,
it is not hard to obey the rule for simple variables.

Dennis Yelle
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