Re: Variables in "for" Loop

From:
"Johannes Schaub (litb)" <schaub-johannes@web.de>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:56:33 +0200
Message-ID:
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Andrea Venturoli wrote:

Il 09/01/10 22:30, Balog Pal ha scritto:

"Johannes Schaub (litb)" <schaub-johannes@web.de>

pointer/reference/function declarators. A way around this is to use a
nameless struct

for(struct { list<string> newlines; list<string>::iterator line; }
loop = { frame(oldlines), loop.newlines.begin() };
loop.line != loop.newlines.end(); ++loop.line) { ... }


Wow, never thought of this neat trick before...


By the way, I remember older gcc versions would accept:

for ({int a=0; double b=0;} a!=10;++a) foo(a,b);

I guess a block-declaration was accepted, altough C++ allows the first
part of the for loop to be a *simple*-declaration.

Newer gccs won't accept this anymore.


Yep, I confused the terms. It's a simple-declaration that's allowed, not a
block-declaration ("{ ... }" wouldn't even be a block-declaration. It's just
a statement). If block-declarations were allowed, one could put using
declarations/directives etc..

Now in C++0x, I've no idea about rules for in-class initializers, but I
wonder whether it's valid to say the following?

for(struct { int a = 0; double b = 0; } loop; ....)

I.e to make use of those new initializers instead of using aggregate
initialization?

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