> Delphi allows inline variable declaration it may do so now, but for the longest time it didn't, which made it compare poorly with C++ and even with C, which

> Delphi allows inline variable declaration it may do so now, but for the longest time it didn't, which made it compare poorly with C++ and even with C, which allows definitions in a scope. in fact the OP concept of scope is a bit crap - basically the whole function,