[auton-users] New gcc problems

[agray at cs.cmu.edu]

Hmm, I hate to be a thorn but...

1.  I like mid-code declarations because they increase code clarity
as well as locality, which can allow better code optimization (ie. SPEED).
I believe that localizing variables is a good programming habit in general,
up to the limit supported by the parser.

2.  I like // comments because they remove extraneous characters and
make my code more visually compressible in some cases - which I claim
helps the readability of complex algorithms, at least for me. (Much
less important than mid-code declarations though.)

Of course if these departures from the classic K&R or pre-1999 ANSI C
have a real cost for the general portability of Auton code, that would
take priority I would say.  (Note that I am not a C++-head, for
portability and other pragmatic reasons.)

Alex

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