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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Many languages let you scope variables.

In c# you can create an arbitrary scope to declare variables in. Most likely in others as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ah clever, didn't think of doing this. Not having to encapsulate if statements in scopes would still look cleaner though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's handy if you're creating temp variables for single use that you don't need to use again.

Although I admit I've only ever done it a couple times lol

Again in c# you can omit the scope and only the next statement is part of an if or loop.