[swift-evolution] repeat loop enhancement

Sean Heber sean at fifthace.com
Wed Dec 9 15:20:28 CST 2015


This seems like the most sensible thing to me - if you don’t need the variable, just leave it out! Nice and clean and no confusion.

l8r
Sean


> On Dec 9, 2015, at 3:18 PM, Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
>>> for x in 1...5 {
>>> 	… some code…
>>> }
>> 
>> for x in 1…5 - what does 1 … 5 mean? What does it mean for x to be in 1 … 5? Now you tell me x isn’t in 1 … 5 and I can replace x with _ what does it mean for _ to be in 1 … 5 and why do I need _ at all? _ isn’t in the loop either. What’s a loop?
> 
> You know, I look at this and wonder, why can’t you just say `for 1…5`?
> 
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> Brent Royal-Gordon
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