[swift-evolution] Revisiting 0004 etc. - Swift deprecations

[David Owens II]

The C99 spec changed the scoping rules to address the very issue you are asking about having any "real-world impact".

Yes, the variable outside does matter. It's why you see some code like this, even with C++ because it used to not scope locally there too with all compilers:

{for (int i= 0; i<10; i++) { ... }}

And as fully explained in the previous threads on the topic, the defer pattern is an insufficient mechanism to generically be used for all c-style for loop constructs. 

-David

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> On Apr 2, 2016, at 7:35 PM, David Sweeris via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> On Apr 2, 2016, at 20:49, Charles Srstka via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> While this style works, and definitely can substitute for a classical for loop, it is not quite as nice, because it cannot limit i’s scope to the loop. The variable will be visible outside of the loop body.
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> I agree it's not as nice aesthetically, but does the loop variable being visible outside the loop cause any real-world problems?
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> - Dave Sweeris
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