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Re:Modern Pascal is still in the race (2022) by Espressosaurus on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @09:55PM (#37852626)
Which is why the convention is usually to not permit multiple declarations in one line.

If you value your codebase anyway.

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Re:Modern Pascal is still in the race (2022) by mikewarot on Thursday October 12, 2023 @05:38AM (#37855127)
Declaring X,Y and Z on separate lines for a graphics routine would just be silly, they're all the same type.

Defensive programming that extreme reminds me of the behavior I learned to avoid pissing off my drunk dad.

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Re:Modern Pascal is still in the race (2022) by Espressosaurus on Thursday October 12, 2023 @09:32PM (#37865452)
It's either that, or making a pointer type to bind things correctly. Convention is there to paper over shitty, shitty behavior in the language that is easy to trip yourself up on.
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