Defect Report #420

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Submitter: Jens Gustedt
Submission Date: 2012-10-08
Source: WG14
Reference Document: N1647
Version: 1.0
Date: October 2012
Subject: sytax error in specification of for-statement

Summary

The standard lists two different forms for the for-statement in 6.8.5p1:

for ( expression[opt] ; expression[opt] ; expression[opt] ) statement
for ( declaration expression[opt] ; expression[opt] ) statement

whereas later in 6.8.5.3 these two forms are subsumed in a third form by:

for ( clause-1 ; expression-2 ; expression-3 ) statement

Obviously the second form above is a typo and doesn't fit within this third form, the semantic that is given in 6.8.5.3 and to common practice in existing compilers.

Suggested Technical Corrigendum

Replace the second form in 6.8.5p1 and A.2.3 by the intended one:

for ( declaration expression[opt] ; expression[opt] ; expression[opt] ) statement

Oct 2012 meeting

Proposed Committee Response

The second form of for-statement is not a typo. The syntax for "declaration", in 6.7 paragraph 1, includes an optional init-declarator-list and a trailing semicolon.


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