Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!psuvax1!schwartz
From: schwartz@cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Use of scope
Message-ID: <Cb:3??2@cs.psu.edu>
Date: 11 Feb 90 07:25:31 GMT
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In article <760@enea.se> sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>Ada is really nice here. You declare the index variable with the FOR
>loop, so that you can only refer to it within the loop.
>
>The nightmare is standard Pascal where you must declare the variables
>before internal functions and procedures.

My favorite is "Stroustrup's revenge": in C++ you can write
	for (int i = 0; ... ; ... ) { ... }
but the variable has scope outside the loop.  

-- 
Scott Schwartz		schwartz@cs.psu.edu

"the same idea is applied today in the use of slide rules." -- Don Knuth