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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: on allowing "int a" definition everywhere
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:39:16 +0100
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Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes:

> On 2024-08-22, Ben Bacarisse <ben@bsb.me.uk> wrote:
>> What's the significance of the declared name being in scope in the else
>> clause here?
>
> else is a part of the if statement. Everything under the statement
> should have visibility to its lexical variable(s).

Yes, but the key point was "here".  It's obviously important in general,
but the claim was that it mattered for the example given.

-- 
Ben.