Hi,
On 2018-12-13 20:53:23 +0000, Andrew Gierth wrote:
> >>>>> "Andres" == Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
>
> >> This code in particular was very heavily into using mixed
> >> declarations and code throughout. Removing those was moderately
> >> painful.
>
> Andres> I wonder if we should instead relax those restriction for the
> Andres> largely foreign pieces of code?
>
> Do we have any reason for the restriction beyond stylistic preference?
No. Robert and Tom were against allowing mixing declarations and code, a
few more against // comments. I don't quite agree with either, but
getting to the rest of C99 seemed more important than fighting those out
at that moment.
Greetings,
Andres Freund