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From: wmmiller@cup.portal.com (William Michael Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Turbo C++ and auto variables
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Date: 27 Jun 90 15:27:36 GMT
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> Can someone clarify where [if anywhere] this restriction is stated of [sic]
> implied in the 2.0 spec?

Sure.  In the May, 1989 draft, section 6.5.3 "For Statement," the last
paragraph reads, "A for-statement containing a declaration in its
for-init-statement may not be the statement after an if, else, switch, while,
do, or for.  This restriction follows from the rule against jumping past
initialized declarations (section 6.6)."

I think Borland can be forgiven for having implemented the spec.

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