Re: [Cpptool-develop] RenameTemp now support scope

[Baptiste L. <gai...@fr...>]

You're right. I checked with VC++ and the variable is indeed accessible in
the initializer. This sound plain wrong for me, but that the way it is.
Should be fairly simple to correct though.

Baptiste.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sven Reichard" <rei...@ma...>
To: "CppTool Mailing List" <Cpp...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Cpptool-develop] RenameTemp now support scope


> Looks great. However, I think the code below is incorrect, if I understand
> the grammar correctly. Stroustrup says something like: The scope of a
> name starts at the point of its declaration; i.e., after the complete
> declarator and before the initializer (Stroustrup, 4.9.4, translated back
> from German). That means that in the line
> >         int x = x * taxeRate;
> the second x already refers to the new variable, i.e., its uninitialized
> value. So, it should be left unchanged, rather than being refactored to
> >     int x = price * taxeRate;
> This is just my theoretical understanding; I'll check if the compiler
> understands the standard in the same way. If this is true, it should make
> the refactoring even easier.
>
> Sven.
>
> --
> Sven Reichard
> Dept. of Math. Sci.
> University of Delaware
> rei...@ma...