From: marb...@yahoo.co.uk   
      
   On Wednesday, 11 January 2023 at 23:07:33 UTC, Thomas Koenig wrote:   
   > Algol 58   
   > aka IAL had declarations everywere, while Algol 60 allowed them   
   > only at the beginning of blocks.   
      
   But Algol 68 allows them anywhere:   
      
   INT x:=42;   
   print(("x=",x,newline));   
   INT y:=76;   
   print(("y=",y,newline));   
   x:=y:=101;   
   print(("x=",x,newline,"y=",y,newline))   
      
   (There's something a bit weird about it in A68, though, but I can't remember   
   what.)   
   (I tend to think of A68 as "A60 made perfect... then some dubious   
   features are added". I gather it took 6 years to write the first   
   complete A68 compiler! Well, strictly speaking, they'd revised A68 by   
   then, so it was an A68R compiler.)   
      
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