<div dir="ltr"><div>If it's parentheses you want to avoid, you don't need a keyword to do that. For example, I can make a stride operator `..+` in four lines like so:</div><div><br></div><div>```</div><div><div>infix operator ..+ { associativity left precedence 134 }</div><div>func ..+ <Element: Strideable>(left: Range<Element>, right: Element.Stride) -> StrideTo<Element> {</div><div> return left.startIndex.stride(to: left.endIndex, by: right)</div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>// example of usage:</div><div>for i in 1..<10..+2 {</div><div> print(i)</div><div>}</div></div><div>```</div><div><br></div>The point is, an extension on Range or a custom operator can be constrained so that Element conforms to Strideable. By contrast, for loops are used to traverse much more than just ranges. How do you envision your proposed keyword to interact with everything else? What if I had `var s: Set<Int>` and tried to write `for i in s by 2`--what do you think should happen? If you wish to limit `by` to ranges only, what is it about this particular function that makes it appropriate for a keyword of its own? You will need more to demonstrate how your proposal achieves what you claim, which is "improved ease and clearness."<div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 2:34 AM, David Knothe via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">I see your point that a simple extension on ranges and similar types would also do the thing.<div><br><div><div>But I do think that this is not as easy as many users would expect.</div><div>For example, I try to avoid parentheses in for loops as much as I can, but in your example, 4 additional brackets are required. A simple keyword („step" or „by“) would solve the problem seamlessly.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, a new template could be introduced that shows the existence of the new keyword:</div><div><img height="47" width="197" src="cid:989616EE-4D7D-422C-BA74-B0A84ACD60C2@fritz.box"></div><div><div><br></div><div>I think adding such a new keyword would improve the ease and the clearness of the Swift language more than just adding some protocol extensions.</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Am 24.03.2016 um 00:02 schrieb Haravikk <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@haravikk.me" target="_blank">swift-evolution@haravikk.me</a>>:</div><br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>I’m behind the idea in principle, but I’m not so sure we need a new keyword for this:</div><div><br></div><div><font face="Monaco"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>for eachIndex in (1 ..< 10).by(2) { … }</font></div><div><br></div><div>The above would be adequate I thin, and just requires a new method on ranges and similar types. This is being discussed, among other things, in the c-style for loop discussion, as these were recently removed but without a replacement for this type of use-case.</div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 23 Mar 2016, at 21:40, David Knothe via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I am new to Swift mailing list so I don’t know if this topic has already been discussed.<br><div><br></div><div>I like Swift's range operators ..< and …</div><div>What I am missing though is an easy operator to create a range with a specified step. Currently, if you would want to iterate over some odd numbers, you had to write:</div><div><i>for i in 1.stride(through: 7, by: 2) { … }</i></div><div>What I think would be simpler and more convenient would be something like the following:</div></div><div><i>for i in 1 … 7 step 2 { … } . </i>Another option would be <i>for i in 1 … 7; 2 { … }</i></div><div>The keyword ‚step‘ in this context clearly corresponds to the step of the range to create or to iterate over.</div><div><br></div><div>Essentially this is a syntactic sugar that makes it easy to create ranges with a step ≠ 1. What do you think?</div></div>_______________________________________________<br>swift-evolution mailing list<br><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution" target="_blank">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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