jaysome wrote:
> Justin Spahr-Summers <Justin.SpahrSummers@gmail.com> wrote:
>
.... snip ...
>
>> The scope of the variable 'b' begins at the inner opening brace
>> and ends at the inner closing brace, and as long as you keep its
>> declaration at the very beginning of that scope, it's legal in
>> both C90 and C99. Any amount of nested braces is allowed as well.
>
> If the scope of the variable 'b' begins at the inner opening
> brace, shouldn't I be allowed to do something like this?
>
> int myfunction (void) {
> int a = 5;
> /* do stuff with 'a' here */
> {
> int b0 = b;
> int b = 6;

It _can_ begin at the brace. It does begin when b is declared.

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