Yeah, you don't have to declare variables at the top of the block even in C, as was mentioned in another comment. And C99 is almost 20 years old now. :) And no, I never claimed, that it should always result in better code. That's way I always use a lot of 'maybe' or 'most probably'. It always leaves the space to back out. :)
But, that piece of code is a good challenge. I've just realized, that I never actually thought how should clean code look like in C. It's a good challenge, actually. I like it. I think I'll take a few days to think it over and then show my version of it (or admit, that it was impossible to write) :)
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Yeah, you don't have to declare variables at the top of the block even in C, as was mentioned in another comment. And C99 is almost 20 years old now. :) And no, I never claimed, that it should always result in better code. That's way I always use a lot of 'maybe' or 'most probably'. It always leaves the space to back out. :)
But, that piece of code is a good challenge. I've just realized, that I never actually thought how should clean code look like in C. It's a good challenge, actually. I like it. I think I'll take a few days to think it over and then show my version of it (or admit, that it was impossible to write) :)