From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2003-08-22T02:40:12+09:00
Subject: Re: for/in loop

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 02:14:15AM +0900, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> Do you have an explanation posted somewhere of why you feel block-local
> variables are evil?  It seems cleaner to me to have variables go
> away at the end of the block when I don't need them anymore, than
> to have them hanging around and taking up memory until the whole method
> exits.

If this is really a concern for you, it should probably be a sign that
the method is too long and needs to be broken down into many separate
methods, each with a distinct purpose.

Paul