Incorrect scope of list comprehension variables

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:05:03 +0200, Alain Ketterlin wrote:

>> I don't know of any language that creates a new scope for loop
>> variables, but perhaps that's just my ignorance...
> 
> I think Pascal and Modula-2 do this, Fortran does this, as well as Ada.

Pascal doesn't do this.

[steve at sylar pascal]$ cat for_test.p
program main(input, output);
  var
    i: integer;
begin
  for i := 1 to 3 do
    begin
      writeln(i);
    end;
  writeln(i);
end.

[steve at sylar pascal]$ gpc for_test.p
[steve at sylar pascal]$ ./a.out
1
2
3
3


However you can't assign to the loop variable inside the loop. Outside of 
the loop, it is treated as just an ordinary variable and you can assign 
to it as usual.



-- 
Steven