[capsicum80]

Previous attempts to doing this have introduced unnecessary ugliness to the language such as the possibility to mix declarations with code. I can only see the language getting worse by introducing new pointless features. Unnecessary bloated C already exists and it is called C++

[Twisol]

By "mix declarations with code", do you mean the ability to put local variables like `int x;` in locations other than immediately at the start of a function? I don't understand why this is a bad thing.

[Mikhail_Edoshin]

(In C you can have local variables inside any block, e.g. 'if' or 'for'.) It's subjective, of course, but I find it much clearer to have a dedicated place to look for variables.

[capsicum80]

This, and especially in the first argument of 'for'. Not back compatible, very inelegant and luckily discouraged in many projects' coding guidelines.

[capsicum80]

Actually it is block, not function. It makes it very difficult to read the code if you are looking for the scope of the variables, or investigating stack usage.