Why is `scope` planned for deprecation?

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On Wednesday, 19 November 2014 at 00:04:50 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> I know you're simply being argumentative when you defend VLAs, 
> a complex and
> useless feature, and denigrate simple ptr/length pairs as 
> complicated.

Wait, we are either discussing the design goals of the original C 
or the evolved C. VLAs did not fit the original C either, but in 
the google discussion you find people who find VLAs very useful. 
It looks a loot better than alloca. The reason it is made 
optional is to make embedded-C compilers easier to write, I think.

> But hey, it's simpler, faster, less code, less bug prone, 
> easier to understand and uses less memory to:
>
> 1. strlen
> 2. allocate
…

Not faster, but if speed is no concern, sure. It seldom is when 
it comes to filenames.

> I know you said "just allocate a large fixed size buffer", but 
> I hope you realize that such practice is the root cause of most 
> buffer overflow bugs,

strcat() should never have been created, but strlcat is safe.

> Now, I know that you'll never concede destruction, after all, 
> this is the internet, but give it up :-)

I always concede destruction :-)