Reduce scope for a few local variables?

[Markus Elfring]

A few local variables are declared at the beginning of functions despite of the detail that they are used only a bit later in these implementations.
Will it help to reduce the scope for such variables?

[Toni Rönkkö]

You are right, as always :) Reduction of the scope would improve readability. However, I like to keep the code compatible with older versions of Visual Studio which did require variables to be declared at the beginning of the block.

[Markus Elfring]

How would you interpret the beginning of the block for a possible adjustment?

[Toni Rönkkö]

Older compilers just needed an extra block like in commit b33e10c

[Markus Elfring]

Thanks for your small source code adjustment.