why scope(success)?

[Ben Hinkle]

"Stewart Gordon" <smjg_1998 at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:e3vkhn$1kq5$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
> James Dunne wrote:
> <snip>
>> Then the implementation according to D's language specs is incorrect. 
>> Nothing is mentioned about new scopes created by if-statements or 
>> while-statements.  New scopes are only created from block { } statements 
>> when inside a function body.  Scope is mentioned (in passing) for the 
>> for-statement; the initializer is noted as a special case.  Did I miss a 
>> blanket statement somewhere else in the docs about this?
>
> I think you're meant to use a bit of common sense here.  What sense does 
> it make for a declaration to be conditional at runtime?
>
> To be honest, I think a naked declaration as the body of a runtime control 
> statement should be illegal.
>
> Stewart.

You're probably right. I had tried dmc and cl and they both complained about 
the use of 'a' without a declaration but in fact I was expecting an error 
that a declaration can't be the body of an 'if' statement. Since both 
compiler didn't say boo about the declaration I figured that declarations 
are considered statements. The C99 spec doesn't consider a declaration a 
statement so I suspect the compilers are giving poor errors.