DMD 0.170 release

Walter Bright newshound at digitalmars.com
Tue Oct 17 14:44:11 PDT 2006


John Reimer wrote:
> I have to agree with Sean and Ary.  My own opinion: I don't really
> understand why "foreach_reverse" was, once again, just tossed into
> the language with (what seems to be) a minimum of discussion?

There was quite a bit of discussion. The thread was a bit old, but that 
doesn't make it less relevant:

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/17320.html

> Well, will you look at that.  Isn't that irony?  We got our rolls
> reversed, I think.  I used to be Walter that was hesitant to add
> keywords to the language.  Go figure! :D

I was reluctant to do it for a long time for that reason. It's just that 
no better solution emerged.



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