Loop-and-a-half (Re: Curious assignment behaviour)

[Markus Schaber]

Hi,

Donn Cave <donn at u.washington.edu> schrub:

> (Note that I'm not
> talking about the initialization section of for(), which is a
> pure non-feature - those statements can just as well be written
> before the loop.)

There's one difference: You can define temporary variables which
are only valid inside of the for statement.

But this may be emulated creating an artificial {} block around
it.

markus
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