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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: scope of FOR
Message-ID: <9803@alice.UUCP>
Date: 22 Aug 89 12:35:10 GMT
References: <1807@hcr.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ
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In article <1807@hcr.UUCP>, ron@hcr.UUCP (Ron Irvine) writes:

> This would let programmers localize the extent of the declared
> variable to the FOR statement.  Bjarne could you please fix this.

Sorry, it's too late.

While working on 2.0 we seriously considered fixing it --
until we discovered how much existing code it would break.
-- 
				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com