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From: stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c++
Subject: Declarations in statements -- a question.
Message-ID: <372@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 16-Aug-86 22:19:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: comp.372
Posted: Sat Aug 16 22:19:28 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 20-Aug-86 08:29:39 EDT
Reply-To: stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir)
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.
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Can anybody explain why the following fails to compile:

main ()
{	if (int i = 5)
		/* do something */;
}

when the following succeeds:

main ()
{	for (int i = 5; i; )
		/* do something */;
}

C++ version 1.1, BSD 4.2, DEC VAX-11/750.
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