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| Fix MSVC's "for" Submitted by

Many people probably know this already, but:
MSVC has a small but annoying bug with the scope of variables defined in for loops. The following fragment is valid c++ but will not compile on msvc.

    for(int i=0; i<10; i++) {
        DoSomeThing();
    }

    for(int i=0; i<10; i++) {
        DoSomeThingElse();
    }

MSVC complains about the second for loop, because the variable 'i' is defined as if it were scoped just outside of the first for loop.
a quick one liner to put at the top of your file, (or even better, in your msvc-specific header files, since everyone is of course targetting multiple platforms and compilers :)):

    #define for if(false) else for

now, for loops will have the semantics that they should, with one small exception: should you type/syntax err badly enough to have an 'else' clause right after your for loop, the compiler will not catch the error... But I've never heard of this happening anyway.

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