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Re: setting pointers to NULL and testing question.

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Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> writes:

> On Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at 6:48:52 PM UTC+1, supe...@casperkitty.com wrote:
>>
>> It's too bad that most languages require all scopes to be strictly
>> nested, since there are many situations where the useful lifetime 
>> of some variables will end precisely at the point when their value 
>> is used in computing the initial/only value of another variable which
>> will never be modified during its lifetime.
>>
> Yes, the pattern
>
> int foo(args ...)
> {
>    int answer = 0;
>
>    /* lots of code */
>
>    return answer;
> }
>
> void bar()
> {
>    const int avalue = foo( x, y, z);
>
>    /* lots of code */ 
> }
>
> is an extremely common one.

And valid in C which has nested scopes, so how is it an example of the
value of allowing non-nested scopes?

-- 
Ben.

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  Re: setting pointers to NULL and testing question. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-06-13 00:50 +0100
    Re: setting pointers to NULL and testing question. G G <gdotone@gmail.com> - 2016-06-12 17:03 -0700
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            Re: setting pointers to NULL and testing question. Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2016-06-18 13:39 -0400
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    Re: setting pointers to NULL and testing question. Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-06-13 11:40 +0100
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        Re: setting pointers to NULL and testing question. Martin Shobe <mashobe9@gmail.com> - 2016-06-13 06:22 -0500
          Re: setting pointers to NULL and testing question. BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-06-13 12:39 +0100
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              Re: setting pointers to NULL and testing question. BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-06-13 17:34 +0100
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      Re: setting pointers to NULL and testing question. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-06-13 12:18 +0100
        Re: setting pointers to NULL and testing question. David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-06-13 14:01 +0200
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            Re: setting pointers to NULL and testing question. David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-06-13 15:37 +0200
              Re: setting pointers to NULL and testing question. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-06-13 14:48 +0100
        Re: setting pointers to NULL and testing question. Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-06-13 15:43 +0100
  Re: setting pointers to NULL and testing question. Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-06-12 17:54 -0700
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    Re: setting pointers to NULL and testing question. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-06-14 16:41 +0100
    Re: setting pointers to NULL and testing question. Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-06-14 09:01 -0700
    Re: setting pointers to NULL and testing question. "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-06-14 13:25 -0400
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                Re: setting pointers to NULL and testing question. supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-06-14 15:16 -0700
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                Re: setting pointers to NULL and testing question. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-06-15 08:35 +0100
                Re: setting pointers to NULL and testing question. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-06-15 08:37 +0100
                Re: setting pointers to NULL and testing question. David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-06-15 10:42 +0200
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                Re: setting pointers to NULL and testing question. supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-06-15 11:41 -0700
                Re: setting pointers to NULL and testing question. raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2016-06-15 19:43 +0000
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      Re: setting pointers to NULL and testing question. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-06-14 20:25 +0100
      Re: setting pointers to NULL and testing question. Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-06-15 19:48 -0700
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            Re: setting pointers to NULL and testing question. supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-06-16 09:25 -0700
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                Re: setting pointers to NULL and testing question. Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-06-21 11:03 -0700
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              Re: setting pointers to NULL and testing question. Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-06-21 11:28 -0700
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