On 2016-09-30, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2016-09-30, Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > >> To me, "make for-loops be their own scope" sounds like a joke >> feature out of joke languages like INTERCAL. I'm not aware of any >> sensible language that does anything like this. > > In C99 a for loop has its own namespac: [...] > I think that's an absolutely brilliant feature, and I use it a _lot_ > when writing C code. I'm a big fan of minimizing the lifetime/scope > of variables. I wish if/then/else did the same thing: > > if ((r=some_function()) != R_SUCCESS) > printf("some_function() failed with status %d\n",r);
The example of what I wished C did should have been this: if ((int r=some_function()) != R_SUCCESS) printf("some_function() failed with status %d\n",r); -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! If I pull this SWITCH at I'll be RITA HAYWORTH!! gmail.com Or a SCIENTOLOGIST! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list