[prewett]

> making assumptions about how forward-looking that C++ is is probably pretty questionable.

Especially since Visual Studio didn't even compile C++ correctly until fairly recently. Variables declared with `for (int i = 0; ...)` would remain in scope after the loop, the same as if it had been declared outside the loop. I don't know when they fixed that, but I think I ran into this problem as recently as 2010. Meanwhile, GCC and everyone else had been doing it correctly for years.

[Negitivefrags]

The last version of the compiler with that problem was VC6 which came out in 1998. This version was superceded in 2002.

I wouldn’t say 16 years ago was recent. If you really ran into this in 2010 it would have either been using an old toolset or the compiler flag that lets you enable the old behaviour for compatibility if you need it.