<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I agree with both of you about the alternative implementations.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That’s exactly what I’d love to see integrated to the standard library like Ruby is here:<div class=""><a href="http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.4/Integer.html#method-i-times" class="">http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.4/Integer.html#method-i-times</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My main problem is that it neither looks <b class="">clean</b> nor <b class="">readable</b> especially for beginners that there is an <i class="">underscore</i> in the closure. Also beginners often get confused with the number of times some code is run when <i class="">starting to count from 0</i> which is also why I think it shouldn’t appear. The .times method would solve both of these problems.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 18.12.2015 um 19:33 schrieb Etan Kissling &lt;<a href="mailto:kissling@oberon.ch" class="">kissling@oberon.ch</a>&gt;:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">

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(or with a for in loop &nbsp;-- but i guess you have a reason for using .foreach)
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&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #bb2ca2" class="">for</span>
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0</span>..&lt;<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #272ad8" class="">5_000</span> {</div>
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print</span>(<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #d12f1b" class="">"asdf"</span>)</div>
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<div class="">On 18 Dec 2015, at 19:31, Etan Kissling via swift-evolution &lt;<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt; wrote:</div>
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<div class="">You don't need stride for this.</div>
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&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #bb2ca2" class="">func</span> foo() {</div>
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&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; (<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #272ad8" class="">0</span>..&lt;<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #272ad8" class="">5_000</span>).<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #3d1d81" class="">forEach</span>
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_</span> <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #bb2ca2" class="">
in</span></div>
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print</span>(<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #d12f1b" class="">"asdf"</span>)</div>
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<div class="">On 18 Dec 2015, at 19:25, Cihat Gündüz via swift-evolution &lt;<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt; wrote:</div>
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Dear Swift-Community,
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<div class="">I’d like to propose an <b class="">addition of a useful method</b>, especially for beginners that also makes Swift much more readable in some situations: The addition of a .times method to Integer type(s).</div>
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<div class="">For example recently in one of my projects I wanted to test the scalability of an important piece of code and wrote this method:</div>
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func</span> testPerfQualityInPercentWithoutQualityImprovements() {</div>
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<span style="" class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #bb2ca2" class="">self</span><span style="" class="">.</span>measureBlock<span style="" class=""> {</span></div>
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let</span> expectedQuality = <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #272ad8" class="">
33.33</span></div>
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&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #272ad8" class="">
0</span>.<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #3d1d81" class="">stride</span>(to:
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5_000</span>, by: <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #272ad8" class="">
1</span>).<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #3d1d81" class="">forEach&nbsp;</span>{
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_</span> <span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #bb2ca2" class="">
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XCTAssertEqualWithAccuracy</span>(<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #bb2ca2" class="">self</span>.<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #4f8187" class="">crossword</span>.<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #4f8187" class="">qualityInPercent</span>,
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0.1</span>) &nbsp;&nbsp;</div>
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&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; } &nbsp;&nbsp;</div>
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&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; }</div>
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<div class="">As you can see what I basically wanted was to repeat the test some thousand times. I also like to use the Ruby language and one thing I love about it is that it has some really handy methods integrated to the language in situations like this which
 make the code very readable and therefore fun to use.</div>
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<div class="">I’m an even bigger fan of Swift so I’d love to see such useful methods appear in Swift, too and this is the first I came across that I really missed. So I’m asking myself, what if I could write the same code above like this:</div>
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&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(187, 44, 162);" class="">func</span>&nbsp;testPerfQualityInPercentWithoutQualityImprovements() {</div>
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<span style="" class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: rgb(187, 44, 162);" class="">self</span><span style="" class="">.</span>measureBlock<span style="" class="">&nbsp;{</span></div>
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&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(187, 44, 162);" class="">let</span>&nbsp;expectedQuality =&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(39, 42, 216);" class="">33.33</span></div>
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&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(39, 42, 216);" class="">5_000.times {</span></div>
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&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(49, 89, 93);" class="">XCTAssertEqualWithAccuracy</span>(<span style="color: rgb(187, 44, 162);" class="">self</span>.<span style="color: rgb(79, 129, 135);" class="">crossword</span>.<span style="color: rgb(79, 129, 135);" class="">qualityInPercent</span>,
 expectedQuality, accuracy:&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(39, 42, 216);" class="">0.1</span>) &nbsp;&nbsp;</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" class="">I think it could be added to the Swift standard library very easily (for example by using the .stride method like I used) without any side effects and has enough advantages to be part of Swift
 itself. What do you think?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" class="">I wish you all the best,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" class="">Cihat</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">P.S.: This is my very first mail in such a mailing list so I did everything correctly. ^.^</div>
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