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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: scope of FOR
Message-ID: <9814@alice.UUCP>
Date: 24 Aug 89 01:53:30 GMT
References: <1807@hcr.UUCP> <9803@alice.UUCP> <573@augean.OZ>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ
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In article <573@augean.OZ>, mpope@augean.OZ (Michael T Pope) writes:

> Thankyou.  I would have been bitten hard by that.  However, in what
> way would one "fix" it?  Surely one does not want to replace the
> simplicity of---

>   for (<foo>;<bar>;<baz>) <rubbish>  

> ---being equivalent to---

>   <foo>;
>   for (;<bar>;<baz>) <rubbish>

> ---with some new special case behaviour?  

No, what we would have done is make

	for (<foo>;<bar>;<baz>) <rubbish>  

equivalent to

	{
		<foo>;
		for (;<bar>;<baz>) <rubbish>
	}
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				--Andrew Koenig
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