Coding practices proposals

[Sam Hartman]

You've convinced me that the inner scope example is the only one worth
debating.


>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Hudson <ghudson at MIT.EDU> writes:

    Greg> http://k5wiki.kerberos.org/wiki/Coding_style/Practices#Local_variables

    Greg> That may be one of the more controversial documented
    Greg> practices.  Personally, I think grouping cleanup code together
    Greg> is compelling enough to argue against inner scope declarations
    Greg> for owner pointers.

Hmm.  I'd like to propose dropping the recommendation against inner
scope variables and the requirement to clean up owner pointers in the
top-most scope in this case.

I think a lot of my bias here is from c++, where I've seen a lot of
advantages to declaration near use.
I understand that there are significant cleanup advantages to c++ that
don't apply here.