Can I declare variables of different types in the initialization of a for loop? [duplicate]

Yes, that is prohibited. Just as otherwise you cannot declare variables of differing types in one declaration statement (edit: modulo the declarator modifiers that @MrLister mentions). You can declare structs

for (struct { int a = 0; short b = 0; } d; d.a < 10; ++d.a, ++d.b ) {}

C++03 code:

for (struct { int a; short b; } d = { 0, 0 }; d.a < 10; ++d.a, ++d.b ) {}

Of course when all are 0, you can omit the initializers altogether and write = { }.

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