[swift-evolution] C-style For Loops

[Erica Sadun]

On Dec 6, 2015, at 11:08 AM, Per Melin <p at greendale.se> wrote:
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> On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Erica Sadun via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
> Another complaint regarded a loss of succinctness. Per Melin wrote: 
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> Another example from the same LinkedList class. It finds the right place to insert a new node:
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>   for next = head; next != nil && index > 0; prev = next, next = next!.next, --index { }
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> Extreme? Probably, but I like it better than the same thing done in five lines of while loop.
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> 
> No worries, but for the record, I did absolutely not write that. I *quoted* that. I think that C-style 'for' is a horrible mess that should be killed with fire.
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> 

My apologies! -- E

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