warning that warns about iso compliant code

[Tim Prince]

Atwood, Robert C wrote:
>  
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
> On Behalf Of Burlen Loring
>> Sent: 01 May 2008 14:22
> ...
> 
>> testNetsted.cpp:4: warning: matches this 'i' under ISO standard rules
>> testNetsted.cpp:7: warning: matches this 'i' under old rules
>>
>> To me it seems the compiler should not warn about code that 
>> follows the
>> ISO standard rules. However, it would be nice if the compiler warned 
>> about the case that didn't follow the standard. 
> 
> I don't see how the compiler could know when someone intended to use the
> old rules? So how could it know which 'case' this example is? 
> 
>  Until someone implements the DWIM directive ;-0.
> 
>  So though I did not even know about the 'old rules' I would agree with
> Scott (me22) that as long as someone might have learned the old rules,
> and come back from not programming c++ for a while, a warning for this
> is not a bad idea.
> 
> I also would have been told by my teachers that this is poor and
> errorprone style, opinions may differ, I don't even like declaring loop
> variables inside the for() .. Because I use c mostly .. 
> 

Try telling your customers about their poor errorprone style.