[mikepurvis]

On the other hand, for those of us who agree with the GP on this, one way around the pitfall is to have your project's style guide ban multiple declarations on a single line, or at least ban them for non-trivial variables— so `int x, y, z;` is permitted, but nothing more than that.

[kazinator]

That's fine if it isn't used as a pretext for writing nonsense like char* p; which should likewise be banned in the same coding style document.