@vaporeon_ if I declare a variable in a for loop in C, it "resets" each start of the loop

That does not happen in bash, obviously, but I wrongly assumed that it did

@vaporeon_ scope is probably the wrong word here

@wallhackio It sounds like the correct word to me...

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ scope is exactly the word fur this

@aescling @vaporeon_ this might surprise you, but I wasn't aware

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ really C is block scoped and for loops are an implicit block. you can introduce new blocks arbitrarily wherever a statement is allowed

@aescling @wallhackio Yes, you can even start a block without any for or while or function definition... Should you? No. But can you? Yes:

#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
  int i = 0;
  {
    int i = 7;
    printf("i (inner): %d\n", i);
  }
  printf("i (outer): %d\n", i);
  return 0;
}