Declaration of variables

Cristian Maglie's(one of the lead Arduino developers) comment on the GitHub issue indicates that this is something the Arduino developers are interested in fixing but he can't reproduce the issue:

I don't think it's a high priority but it sounds like if someone would point them in the right direction the developers would probably have a try at a fix. It may end up that the fix would need to be made upstream.

Interestingly, the comment from the Arduino webmaster indicates that they would also like Create, the web IDE, to support XP: