[swift-evolution] Proposal: Remove the underscore and `in` for `for` loop

[Jose Cheyo Jimenez]

How would you build a condition to break if you are ignoring each value ? Unless you are hard coding a condition in which case I would still argue that the proposed shorthand for is less clear than `for _ in` or forEach. 

> On Jul 4, 2016, at 9:29 PM, Charlie Monroe <charlie at charliemonroe.net> wrote:
> 
>> -1 this is why we have collection.forEach{}
>> 
>> (1...10).forEach {
>> // do something. 
>> }
> 
> This is not equivalent since it doesn't allow you to break from the for loop.
> 
>> 
>>> On Jul 1, 2016, at 12:38 AM, Diego Barros via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> When you want a simple `for` loop, for example:
>>> 
>>> for _ in 1...10 {
>>> 
>>> // do something 10 times
>>> 
>>> }
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Clean-up and simplify the syntax by removing the superfluous underscore and `in`:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> for 1...10 {
>>> 
>>> // do something 10 times
>>> 
>>> 
>>> }
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- diego
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