"Axel Baune" <aba### [at] neuroinformatikuni-ulmde> wrote in message
>
> Johannes Hubert wrote:
> > Not really correct either. You are probably thinking of C++, where
the
> > ISO/ANSI standard says that a variable declared (and initialized)
inside
> > of the for-statement is defined only in the statement and the block
that
> > belongs to it. A fact that is still ignored by most compilers (the
> > standard is still kind of fresh).
>
> The standard isn't that fresh. This 'definition' for an for-loop was
the
> original  design of the computer scientists for the basic programming
> language independant programming standard. But, however the compiler
and
> most standards ignored it till jet.

I was talking about the ISO/ANSI C++ standard, which is "kind-of" fresh
(when was it ratified, summer of '98 or such?).

Johannes.

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