Grammar simplification straw poll

[Michiel Salters]

I'm wondering if it's worth to simplify the grammar of
conditional statements slightly. Currently there's a special
production to generate declarations in if-statements:

condition:
expression
type-specifier-seq declarator = assignment-expression

This could be simplified, I think, by "reusing" the
decl-specifier-seq_opt init-declarator-lis_opt parts from
simple-declaration ( thus everything except the ; ).

This would allow

if ( T a(b) )
{
// use a
}

just as the following currently is legal

for( T a(b) ;; )
{
// use a
}

I coudn't see an obvious parsing problem, but that of course
doesn't prove anything.

[ This issue was brought up in a Dutch programming forum ]

Regards,
--
Michiel Salters

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