Short: C++-style variable definitions
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 21:17:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Gibby <oop_apprentice@yahoo.com>
Type: Feature
State: Done in LDMud 3.2.9-dev.405

Could you allow variables to be declared
anywhere down in the scope as C++ does? 

E.g.:

        {
            string str;
            str = ({ });

            mapping map;
            ...
        }