<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="">Hi Ross,<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 29.07.2016, at 00:21, Ross O'Brien <<a href="mailto:narrativium+swift@gmail.com" class="">narrativium+swift@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class=""><br class="">This would imply, that if a decision is made, which in a later and changed context proves to be a bad one, would be irreversible? </div><div class="">Better turn half way than to err in continuing.</div><div class="">Or, one decides to go diving, but arriving at the location, notice that the water is full of sharks? Still continue? </div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">But there's no 'continue' here. The time to 'turn half way' was months ago. We already arrived.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">We moved house. We sold the old one, handed over the keys, moved into the new place and put up the wallpaper. If you want to move back to the old house, you'll need to convince everyone to put everything back into boxes.</div></div></div></blockquote>Hey Ross, look around you in the house! Ah, there it is! </div><div>You’d only have to unpack the box with the for;; it’s still there :o)</div><div><div>I bet, the components in the compiler to process a for;; are still present in the 3.0 compiler</div><div>and could be simply reactivated?</div><div><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">Swift 3 does not have C-style for-loops. That decision has been made.</div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">But on August 1, feel free to make a pitch explaining why C-style for-loops are a feature worth adding to Swift 4.</div></div></div></blockquote>Will do. thanks.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Anyway:</div><div>I’ll drop the subject for now, also</div><div>because my highly exceptional request will probably not be honored.</div><div>Then so be it. </div><div>Met vriendelijke groeten</div><div>Ted<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div></div>
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