[fpc-pascal] for loop variable value reliable after loop?

Adriaan van Os fpc at microbizz.nl
Mon Oct 5 15:43:37 CEST 2015


Sven Barth wrote:

> The for-loop-variable contains a valid value after the loop if the loop 
> was left using a break or goto (this does not seem to be documented in 
> FPC's language reference guide, but AFAIK it is in Delphi; also don't 
> know what the ISO standard says about this...).

ISO/IEC 7185 :1990(E) says in section 6.8 .3.9 For-statements

After a for-statement is executed, other than being left by a goto-statement, the control-variable 
shall be undefined .

Regards,

Adriaan van Os



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