[fpc-pascal] Syntax changes suggestions

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2018, Henry Vermaak wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 12:07:10PM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> >On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 11:14:31AM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> If you need to "reduce the scope of variables", your routines are too long to
>> begin with.
>> 
>> If of course you write routines of several hundreds of lines (or thousands),
>> then you probably would need to have such a feature.
>> 
>> But I would fire any programmer that writes such code anyway, since it
>> indicates he cannot think structured.
>
> And I'd fire any programmer that doesn't properly scope their variables,
> just as you'd (hopefully) fire a programmer for using global instead of
> function level variables.

Exactly: I do scope them. I make small routines.

Reducing scope to 5 lines in a routine of 20 lines is a waste of time.

Michael.