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in reply to Re^2: Pearls (not really) of Perl programming
in thread Pearls (not really) of Perl programming

It's funny that you mention C - whenever I had to deal with it, I would always create additional blocks inside a func just to limit variable scope. 
int a()
{
  {
    int a, b;
    ...
  }

  /* move on */
  {
    int a, b, c;
  }
}

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That did result in some excessive indentation though.

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