Re: Variables scope

In 7.0 and up you can change the behaviour of for loops without affecting
the other "extensions", there is a separate setting for it.

It's not anonymous unions that are disabled with language extensions off
though, but anonymous structs. Anonymous unions is valid ANSI C, I'm pretty
sure.

// Kristoffer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anders Nilsson" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 5:15 PM
Subject: RE: [GD-General] Variables scope


> This is not really a bug but rather a feature so service packs are not
> likely to change the behaviour. You can turn on "more" compliance with
> the C++-standard but then you get other things you might not want
> (anonymous unions are forbidden etc). The behavior of a language should
> not change with SP's (but optional features can be added though).
>
> Just use the define-hack and include it in some file that all files
> includes (typedefs.h or something) and then you can include it on the
> platforms that has the "broken" variable scopes).
>
> Anders Nilsson
>
> On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 15:09, CAVEY GERARD wrote:
> > >Kristoffer Grönlund wrote:
> > >
> > >>The way I've worked around this in the past has been by redefining for
as
> > >>follows:
> > >>#define for if (false) {} else for
> > >>
> > >>Yes, it's a hideously ugly hack, but so is the problem in the first
place.
> > >>I've never had any problems because of it.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >Hmm... sounds like an ugly solution for something that is more simply
> > >solved by just
> > >declaring the loop counter outside the for.
> >
> > Hi
> > As Mr Aravelo(pyrostudios) told me out of list
> > it can also be written
> > #define for if (1) for
> > a bit simpler ...
> > I didn t update VC 6.0 yet but maybe that the latest service pack
> > can avoid the workaround.
> > Anyway I d better wait to get VS.NET
> > Thanks for your help
> >
> > Regards
> > GC
>
>
>
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