We already allowed variables to be declared in the middle of a function
(whenever a new scope was opened), so this isn't such a big change. Sometimes
we would open a scope just to work around this prohibition.
But sometimes the code can be much clearer if the variable is declared
somewhere in the middle of a scope, in particular if the declaration is
combined with initialization or acquisition of some resources. So let's allow
this, but keep things in the old style, unless there's a good reason to move
the variable declaration to a different place.
I figure sooneror later we'll have more of these docs, hence let's give
them a clean place to be.
This leaves NEWS and README/README.md as well as the LICENSE texts in
the root directory of the project since that appears to be customary for
Free Software projects.
Michael Biebl