I noticed that my compiler rejects the following construct.

do
{
   int x;
   //...
}
while( x > 0 );

I don't know if this is valid C++ or not, but wouldn't it make sense to extend
variable scope in do...while loops? I think it would be in the spirit of

for( int x = 0 ; ...)
{
   // use x
}


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