Suggested feature: 'Move declaration close to first use'

Another couple of hundred good suggestions can also be found in the book "Code Complete 2" (which is where this one came from!)

Cheers

Steve

The opposite refactoring is sometiems useful as well. Sometimes I have a
variable inside a block that I find I want or need to refer to outside the
block as I'm making changes or enhancements to existing code. Moving a
declaration outside enclosing block would be a useful tool to have as well.

"Steve Dunn" <steve.dunn@credit-suisse.com> wrote in message
news:20715368.1148302388282.JavaMail.itn@is.intellij.net...
>A very common refactoring is to move the declaration of a variable as close
>to its first use as possible. The following code demonstrates:

public void MyPublicMethod( string input1, object input2 )
{
string a = @"blah" ;
int n = 5 ;
int x = 6 ;
string b = a ;
}

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The declaration of a should be as closed as to where it is first used as
possible.

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What do you think?

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Cheers,

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Steve