Thanks Graham!

I think I will stick to the more restricted version. It's more compact
and reliable indeed.

It seems that C99 is set by default in XCode. What are the possible
scenarios when I may need to use another dialect?

Oleg.

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Graham Cox <graham....@bigpond.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
>
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