I would NEVER rely on this in production code. The value of the control variable of a For loop after execution should never be relied upon. A simple change in the compiler at some future point could break a lot of your code.
Cheers, Andy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Flávio Etrusco Sent: 12 March 2007 15:19 To: FPC-Pascal users discussions Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Value of runner variable after a for loop On 3/12/07, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote: > > > Take the following example: > > > > for i:= 0 to 2 do; > > WriteLn(i); > > > > Can i safely assume that after the for loop the value of "i" is 2? > > No. I think it is even specified in the pascal standard. > And unless the compiler (programmer) use an extra variable just to attain this behaviour, the value after the loop will 3 (i.e. end value +1). -Flávio _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
