Simplistic block scope - a syntactic sugar

[MegaIng (Cornelius Krupp)]

• Ad-hoc scoping to organize code
• Should loops be in their own scope? [poll]
• Lack of block scope

The last one has one particularly clear message at the end:

Lack of block scope

For moderation clarity: the final responses here explain eloquently why block scope will never happen. Further discussion is not productive.