Remove declaration-after-statement C warning

[Arnaud Fontaine]

Mouse <mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG> writes:

>> The one bit I would like to have is declarations in for/while loops,
>> such as
>>
>> 	for (int i = 0; i < MAXSCREENS; i++)
>
> I wish I knew more about the spec.  If that's equivalent to
>
> 	int i;
> 	for (i=0;i<MAXSCREENS;i++)
>
> then I don't like it any better.  But if i goes out of scope at the end
> of the loop, then I rather like the idea.  (Even then, though, I'm not
> sure I like the syntax, because it looks as though it is going to have
> horrible parsing ambiguities in the presence of comma operators or
> multiple variable declarations in the init portion.)

No, it's equivalent to something like:

{
  int i;
  for(i=0;i<MAXSCREENS;i++)
  {
    ...
  }
}

which means that 'i' has a block scope and will go out at the end of the
block in the example above. At least, this is my understanding.

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Arnaud Fontaine