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From: knutson@marconi.sw.mcc.com (Jim Knutson)
Newsgroups: gnu.g++.bug
Subject: Why is this an error?
Message-ID: <2492@marconi.sw.mcc.com>
Date: 17 Jun 89 16:56:45 GMT
Organization: MCC, Austin, TX
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If variables can be declared anywhere, why is the int sum
declaration below an error?  This happens when using g++ 1.35.0.

#include <stream.h>

main()
{
	for (int i = 1; i < 10; i++) {
		int sum += i;		// += is a parse error
		printf("i = %d, sum = %d\n",i,sum);
	}
}
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Jim Knutson
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