From: marb...@yahoo.co.uk   
      
   > [If you're doing a one-pass compiler, it's easier if all the declarations   
   are at the   
   > beginning so you can generate the code to set up the stack frame and do   
   initializations.   
   > I agree that on modern computers it's not a big deal, but remember that   
   early C compilers   
   > ran in 24K bytes and I don't mean meagabytes. -John]   
      
   Presumably such a compiler would have to create 2 stack frames for   
   `char *foo="foo"; puts(foo); { char *bar="bar"; puts(bar); }`   
   [In a mutant version of C with nested scopes, I suppose so, but when C   
   compilers   
   ran in 24K bytes, it didn't. -John]   
      
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