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>>>>> "MA" == Matt Austern <matt@godzilla.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> writes:

 MA> Just about the only good news is that most programs will break
 MA> noisily: it's only when you're already playing dangerous games with
 MA> variables of the same name in different scopes that a legal program
 MA> that does one thing will turn into a legal program that does something
 MA> else.

A quality compiler would offer a warning about code like this:

  int i;
  // ...
  {
    for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
      f(i);
    g(i); // warning: which instance of `i' did you mean?
  }

because the code has two (entirely different) valid meanings depending on
whether your compiler is up to date.

Michael.

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