<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Sean Heber 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"><span class="">> And to follow-up to myself once again, I went to my "Cool 3rd Party Swift Repos" folder and did the same search. Among the 15 repos in that folder, a joint search returned about 650 hits on for-in (again with some false positives) and not a single for-in-while use.<br>
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</span>Weird. My own Swift projects (not on Github :P) use “where” all the time with for loops. I really like it and think it reads *and* writes far better as well as makes for nicer one-liners. In one project, by rough count, I have about 20 that use “where” vs. 40 in that same project not using “where”.<br>
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In another smaller test project, there are only 10 for loops, but even so one still managed to use where.<br>
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Not a lot of data without looking at even more projects, I admit, but this seems to suggest that the usage of “where” is going to be very developer-dependent. Perhaps there’s some factor of prior background at work here? (I’ve done a lot of SQL in another life, for example.)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That is worrying if true, because it suggests that it's enabling 'dialects' of Swift, an explicit anti-goal of the language.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I feel like “where” is a more declarative construct and that we should be encouraging that way of thinking in general. When using it, it feels like “magic” for some reason - even though there’s nothing special about it. It feels like I’ve made the language work *for me* a little bit rather than me having to contort my solution to the will of the language. This may be highly subjective.<br>
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l8r<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Sean<br>
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