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Re: FOR loop ends one above where it's supposed to [message #71124 is a reply to message #71120]

Wed, 02 June 2010 09:07

penteado
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On Jun 2, 12:57 pm, Paolo <pgri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> While people here gave a logical explanation as to what is happening,
> I would say that the *safest* practice in your programming is to not
> use the for loop index variable ("i" in this case) for anything else
> in your program. That will make the code much easier to write, read
> and understand.

Which is why I miss block scope in IDL, so that the variable would not
even exist outside the loop.

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		Re: FOR loop ends one above where it's supposed to By: Bulgakovv on Wed, 02 June 2010 09:49
		Re: FOR loop ends one above where it's supposed to By: penteado on Wed, 02 June 2010 09:07
		Re: FOR loop ends one above where it's supposed to By: pgrigis on Wed, 02 June 2010 08:57
		Re: FOR loop ends one above where it's supposed to By: cameron bowles on Tue, 01 June 2010 22:36
		Re: FOR loop ends one above where it's supposed to By: cameron bowles on Tue, 01 June 2010 22:34
		Re: FOR loop ends one above where it's supposed to By: mankoff on Tue, 01 June 2010 17:53

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