Dropping “naked” local blocks?

Early warning on this one (not even a PR yet, just an issue): Martin has proposed dropping support for “naked” local blocks in code — that is, code blocks that aren’t associated with a function call, that just introduce a new scope.

The rationale makes sense: these naked blocks only reliably do what you expect if they are preceded by a blank line, so they are brittle and tend to introduce bugs. And it’s not a huge change, since the locally function (which does the same thing) will still be around. So the change is basically to drop the fragile naked-block construct in favor of enforcing the more-reliable locally.

Still and all, this isn’t a terribly rare usage, so folks should be aware of it. If you have an opinion, chime in at the issue linked above.