On 18/11/2010, at 10:47 PM, Graham Cox wrote:

> I don't think there is any significant advantage to either form, except the 
> latter is perhaps a bit more compact in source code. It shouldn't make any 
> difference to the object code.


I should also point out that there is a scope difference - in the second form 
the counter variable only has the scope of the for{...} statement whereas the 
first form has the scope of the enclosing statement. Arguably the more 
restricted scoping can help eliminate bugs.

--Graham


_______________________________________________

Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com)

Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list.
Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com

Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com

Reply via email to