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I wrote:
>surprises that used to be legal (e.g. you could have the lifetime and 
>scope of an object not end at the same time, and then there was some 
>weirdness introduced by the RTTI rules).

That last phrase is shoddy writing.  Instead of the sloppy (and wrong) "some 
weirdness introduced", Steve said much more clearly:

Steve Clamage wrote:
>3. With the addition of dynamic_cast, it became particularly desirable
>to have limited-scope variables defined in loop or selection statements:
>	if( T* p = dynamic_cast<T*>(e) { ... }
>	else if( U* p = dynamic_cast<U*>(e) { ... }
>A for-loop variable should then also have limited scope. This was the
>clincher.

Mea culpa!

Herb


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