<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi Erica,</div><br class=""><div class="">One argument that I don’t see being made in your proposal is that the while statement provides an equivalent, more verbose form of C-style for loops. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #bb2ca2" class="">var</span> i = <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #272ad8" class="">0</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #bb2ca2" class="">while</span> (<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #4f8187" class="">i</span> < <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #272ad8" class="">10</span>) {</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(61, 29, 129);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class=""> </span>print<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #4f8187" class="">i</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""> <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #4f8187" class="">i</span> += <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #272ad8" class="">1</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class="">}</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I understand that one of the major goals of Swift is to be a language great to learn about computing. Removing C-style loops doesn’t really diminished from this goal because the same thing can be taught with while.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Good luck,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ray Fix</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>