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 > > > _______________________________________________ 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