Missing ";" in the for statement Grammar

[Barry]

In ISO/IEC 14882:2003,
6.5/1

iteration-statement:
while ( condition ) statement
do statement while ( expression ) ;
for ( for-init-statement _;_ conditionopt ; expressionopt ) statement
^^^

I found out it remained repaired in N2369.

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[Matti Rintala]

Barry wrote:
> In ISO/IEC 14882:2003,
> 6.5/1
>
> iteration-statement:
> while ( condition ) statement
> do statement while ( expression ) ;
> for ( for-init-statement _;_ conditionopt ; expressionopt ) statement

The semicolon is not missing, it is automatically included in the
for-init-statement (either an expression-statement or a simple-declaration,
both of which end in a semicolon). There is even a note explaining this in
6.5/1, both in 1998 and 2003 versions.

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------------- Matti Rintala ------------ matti....@tut.fi ------------
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[James Dennett]

Barry wrote:
> In ISO/IEC 14882:2003,
> 6.5/1
>
> iteration-statement:
> while ( condition ) statement
> do statement while ( expression ) ;
> for ( for-init-statement _;_ conditionopt ; expressionopt ) statement
> ^^^
>
> I found out it remained repaired in N2369.

>From memory, I believe that a for-init-statement always ends in a
semicolon and this "omission" is therefore deliberate.

-- James