Breaking news: 1998 has come and gone.
Last month's canary for loop did not die in the coal mine of decrepit
toolchains. Make a note of this in STYLE.md so we know to start breeding
more of them. We can indeed declare index variables like it's 1999.
I haven't bothered to convert all of our for loops because that will be
tedious, but we can do it as we touch the code. Or if someone feels
really really bored.
BUG=47
Change-Id: Ib76c0767c1b509e825eac66f8c2e3ee2134e2493
Reviewed-on: https://boringssl-review.googlesource.com/8740
Reviewed-by: Adam Langley <agl@google.com>
diff --git a/STYLE.md b/STYLE.md
index 17295b4..a6aa359 100644
--- a/STYLE.md
+++ b/STYLE.md
@@ -27,7 +27,9 @@
our target platforms. Typically, Chromium's target MSVC is the most
restrictive.
-Variable declarations in the middle of a function are allowed.
+Variable declarations in the middle of a function or inside a `for` loop are
+allowed and preferred where possible. Note that the common `goto err` cleanup
+pattern requires lifting some variable declarations.
Comments should be `/* C-style */` for consistency.
