[Bf-committers] Compiler error with MSVC6 on SG_Tree.cpp

[John K. Walton]

On Mon, 17 May 2004, Stephen Swaney wrote:

> Douglas Toltzman wrote:
> > 
> > Of course you are correct, but in my 12 years of professional C++
> > development, I've found that there is no really good reason to declare a
> > variable in a for loop, and it is known to make trouble with some
> > compilers.  
> 
> Interesting.  With a similar amount of experience, I have exactly
> the opposite opinion.  There is no reason to expand the scope
> of a variable beyond where it is used.  This is one of the
> known differences between C and C++.
> 
> > Also, the assignment syntax of "<type> <name>(<value>)" is, in
> > some compilers troublesome.  Is there really a good reason to use syntax
> > that is only going to make trouble for some people, if there is no benefit
> > in execution speed or legibility?
> 
> Actually, this is initialization rather than assignment and can
> be the only way to set const and reference members of classes.
> 
> But let's not turn this into a language-lawyering funboard discussion.
> 
> Having supported multi-platform apps under various compilers,
> I am not insensitve to the problems.  However, rather than
> hearing people grump about someone writing standard C++,
> I would expect the users of broken implementations to be
> cheerfully raising their hands and saying "Why, yes, I
> would be happy to port the code to my brain-dead compiler."

this has no value. hos, have fun, i give up.
 
> As Aristotle said, "Give me enough #ifdefs and a place to sit,
> and I can support anything".
> 
>