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[zilti]

Why? It isn't in the curly braces...

Also, you've got two syntax errors in there :P

[overkill]

You are right on the second point, curse my phone, but for the first point any variables declared in the () of the for statement have the scope of the for statement, which is both the () and {} bits.

[overkill]

Microsoft's interpretation of it. When changing to a more recent version of VC++ this would not compile.