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From: bhoughto@hopi.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Initialization of automatics within loops
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Date: 7 Feb 91 18:06:04 GMT
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In article <4fa77adf.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> blodgett@apollo.HP.COM
(Bruce Blodgett) writes:
>In article <2293@inews.intel.com> bhoughto@hopi.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>> mickle:
>> 	    int bar = 0111;
>> 	    foo *= bar;
>> `mickle:' labels `foo *= bar;', which is a statement,
[...incrimination deleted...]
>The label mickle: precedes a declaration, not a statement.  This is
>not syntactically legal.

Oops.  Good thing I don't code that way...

				--Blair
				  "Stop laughing, Doug."