Re: Nautilus coding style change

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Maciej Stachowiak">

> However, with C99, the entire reason for the rule is obsolete. It should
> now be possible to put declarations anywehre, so putting them at the start
> of an if or while block should impose no special problems for others
> changing the code in the future.

To my knowledge, you can only do that with GCC 3.x, which might not be an
altogether reasonable assumption on our part. We could say it's an absolute
dependency, but do we want to? :-)

- Jeff

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