Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!mrccrc!dcurtis From: dcurtis@crc.ac.uk (Dr. David Curtis) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: conditional scope and destructors results Message-ID: <366@tin.crc.ac.uk> Date: 20 Nov 90 17:43:23 GMT References: <1990Nov13.114958.20853@hemel.bull.co.uk> <329@tin.crc.ac.uk> Reply-To: dcurtis@crc.ac.uk (Dr. David Curtis) Organization: MRC Human Genome Resource Centre Lines: 4 Jamshid Afshar has pointed out that I was wrong to say that it was not the compiler's problem if you try to skip past an initialiser with a goto. In fact it is illegal to do this, so the compiler ought to flag it as an error rather than just tell you not to do it in the manual.