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From: "Rafal Dabrowa" <rdabrowa@poczta.onet.pl>
Subject: Re: c++/7008: unexpected error message "var was not declared in this scope"
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The following reply was made to PR c++/7008; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Rafal Dabrowa" <rdabrowa@poczta.onet.pl>
To: <rdabrowa@poczta.onet.pl>, <gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org>,
	<gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org>, <gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org>, <nobody@gcc.gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: c++/7008: unexpected error message "var was not declared in this scope"
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 13:58:10 +0200

 I have a few additional remarks about compiler behavior.
 
     Compiler should not take a global variable because
 use of local one is forbidden. This is unclear and confusing
 people. Compiler should put an error message instead.
 Consider the following code:
 
      const int N = 500;
 
      void f(int var) {
          const int N = 5;
          struct { char str[N]; } z1;    // error: use of local variable is
 forbidden here
          struct { char str[::N]; } z2;    // global variable used, ok
      }
 
 Also, error text: "var was not declared in this scope" is
 unclear, too. In my opinion, better is such like "use of local variable
 is not allowed here".
 
 Rafal Dabrowa