• @[email protected]
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    10 months ago

    Using a standalone ‘else’ would tickle my brain in the same nice way that being able to declare a variable inside an ‘if’ statement as if it were a ‘for’ loop (which you can do in modern C++) does.

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      210 months ago

      Many languages let you scope variables.

      In c# you can create an arbitrary scope to declare variables in. Most likely in others as well.

      • @[email protected]
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        210 months ago

        Ah clever, didn’t think of doing this. Not having to encapsulate if statements in scopes would still look cleaner though

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          10 months ago

          It’s handy if you’re creating temp variables for single use that you don’t need to use again.

          Although I admit I’ve only ever done it a couple times lol

          Again in c# you can omit the scope and only the next statement is part of an if or loop.

    • @jaybone
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      110 months ago

      Block scoped variables are bad?