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Re^4: If Statement
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Nov 06, 2002 at 19:57 UTC
    Oh wow. I had no idea - never seen one in a C source.

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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      naked blocks can be useful in C, because they allow you to declare variables somewhere in a function other than at the start, for example - 
      void MyFunction()
{
  int a = 10;
  
  printf ("%d",a);
  
  {
    int b = 5;
  
    printf ("%d",b);
  }
}

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      The following would be illegal in C -
      void MyFunction()
{
  int a = 10;
  
  printf ("%d",a);
  
  int b = 5;
  
  printf ("%d",b);
  
}

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