From 1185938788188525490 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,74637d148a591f02 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-26 15:48:02 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: James Dennett Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Proposal: two real uses for the "auto" keyword Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 23:44:29 GMT Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: <3ABF4E68.14646D4E@acm.org> References: <052201c0b4ab$603e8050$0500a8c0@dragonsys.com> <99l3nf$7n0$1@news-int.gatech.edu> <+zJqQ9Afowv6Ews1@ntlworld.com> X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 985650275 mail2news:659 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) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 21 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.std.c++:4019 Francis Glassborow wrote: > > 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. Would it be sensible to consider deprecating this feature, or removing it altogether? It seems to give no significant benefit, and plenty of pain. -- James Dennett --- [ 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 ]