Ah, that's exactly the thing I try to avoid. Presumably you're going to use those variables, right? So, unless there's truly an issue (conditional assignment th

Ah, that's exactly the thing I try to avoid. Presumably you're going to use those variables, right? So, unless there's truly an issue (conditional assignment that is too complex for a ternary) why not declare them at the point of use? C99 lets us do that, there's no reason to keep the C89 habits. Meaning: int* foo = whatever; // do some stuff with foo, now we need bar int* bar = whatever; Outside of a for loop, I would never do two assignments on the same line, so it isn't an issue. If it really has to be done like that, I just suck it up in that case. C has its warts.