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Subject: Re: [9fans] A Plan 9 C request....
Date: Wed,  1 Mar 2006 10:09:24 -0800
From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
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when it was added to C++, i "felt" that the scope
of 'i' wasn't natural; it goes beyond 'for's closure.
i like a behavior like this:

	{ int i; for (i = 0, ...) ...; }

> Here's a request for my favorite C feature from C99, which isn't yet in
> Plan 9 C.  I'd really like it if one could write statements of the form,
>
> 	for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++);
>
> or
>
> 	for (char *p = s; *p != '\0'; p++);
>
> That is, declare variables in the first part of a for loop.  That would
> be nice.  Anyone care to add it to the compiler?  I'd try it myself, but
> I'm just too busy right now....