Some C++ questions

[Mike Stump]

> From: Ross Alexander <r.alexander@auckland.ac.nz>
> To: egcs@cygnus.com
> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 14:35:42 +1300 (NDT)

> Here are a couple of C++ scoping questions I have.

I think comp.lang.c++ is a better place to drag people's knowledge of
C++ out of them.  This isn't the place for people to teach you c++.

This is a place where compiler experts join together to implement a
set of compilers.

If you have trouble interpreting the standard, this might be
reasonable, though, even for that I wish people would hit comp.std.c++
first.  If you're going to implement it, then asking here would be
fine.

> int main()
> {
>   if (int i = 10)
>     i++; // should be okay
>   i++; // shold be out of scope
> }

> SGI CC v7.0 doesn't like the declaration within the if statement.

SGI is out of date.  We should get this right.

> 2)
> int main()
> {
>   for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
>     cout << i;

>   for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) // should be fine
>     cout << i;
> }

> Both SGI CC v7.0 and SunPro CC 4.2 barf horribly at this.

They are both out of date, we should get this right.