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From: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
Subject: declarations in for loops
Message-ID: <56168@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jul 90 19:36:10 GMT
Reply-To: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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Proposed:

That the traditional C++ ability to declare variables in for loops
be maintained, and maintain its traditional meanings, for example:

doFoo()
{
	for (int i=0; i<100; ++i)
		for (int j=0; j<i; ++j)
			doSomething(i,j);
}

*is* legal, and i's and j's scopes extend to the end of doFoo().

[disclaimer: this represents the opinions of an individual C++ user]