I'm sitting at my desk, hacking away at some code, when I had a question about the use of my. Not how it works, or anything like that. Nor do I want to do away with it. I use strict (I have been listening, O! Monks). No, the question I had was, for style and readability, where do you declare your variables? My first language was Ada, where I really had no choice. dvergin said "A common rule of thumb is that you want to declare the variable in as narrow a scope as you can and still be able to access it where you need to." in this discussion, but aside from the function, what do you find to be easier to read and/or maintain? Predeclaring variables, or declaring them as you need them?

Marty

Update: Fixed the code tag I goofed... Sorry about that..

In reply to Where to put my variables... by ravendarke

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