From -5366332904018686680 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,74637d148a591f02 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-26 06:06:01 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!63.208.208.143!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!btnet-peer!btnet-peer0!btnet!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Francis Glassborow Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Proposal: two real uses for the "auto" keyword Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 14:03:09 GMT Organization: Southfield Microcomputer SS Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: <+zJqQ9Afowv6Ews1@ntlworld.com> References: <052201c0b4ab$603e8050$0500a8c0@dragonsys.com> <99l3nf$7n0$1@news-int.gatech.edu> Reply-To: Francis Glassborow X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 985615400 mail2news:26061 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!mulga.cs.mu.oz.au X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.00 U Lines: 19 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.std.c++:4009 In article <99l3nf$7n0$1@news-int.gatech.edu>, Brian McNamara! writes >(As an aside, I am curious why function declarations are even allowed >inside functions.) Almost certainly for compatibility with C. -- Francis Glassborow See http://www.accu.org for details of The ACCU Spring Conference, 2001 (includes many regular participants to C & C++ newsgroups) --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.research.att.com/~austern/csc/faq.html ]