This has nothing to do with "dogma" and something simpler. It has nothing to do with "immediately see them".

Hint: This about this from a single pass compiler basis and how much memory needs to be reserved from the procedure's stack frame.

"This is nothing to do with something simpler" and "this is from a single pass compiler".

Are you sure you actually read my second bullet point?

If you read texts and papers by Wirth you'll see a single theme emerge: simplicity. Everything he didn't consider simple was thrown away and derided.