c99/c++ localised variable definition

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20050131122609.GA83556 at gurney.reilly.home>, Andrew Reilly writes:

>If you carelessly c++-ify a loop like:
>
>	for (int i = 0; i < N; i++)
>	{
>		if (some_condition(i)) break;
>	}
>	do_something_with(i);	/* use finishing index */
>
>you can miss the fact that the value of i is used outside of the
>loop.  The newly created scope for "i" shadows the presumably
>pre-existing definition of i at the top of the function, which
>is what do_something_with() gets to see.

I would _really_ hope we have the compiler warning about this
already ?

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