Paul Rubin wrote: >> > Some languages let you say things like: >> > for (var x = 0; x < 10; x++) >> > do_something(x); >> > and that limits the scope of x to the for loop. >> >> depending on the compiler version, compiler switches, IDE settings, etc. > > Huh? I'm not sure what you're talking about.
guess you haven't used some languages that do this long enough. in some early C++ compilers, the scope for "x" was limited to the scope containing the for loop, not the for loop itself. some commercial compilers still default to that behaviour. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list