for loop parens

[monarch_dodra]

On Saturday, 13 July 2013 at 06:56:46 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 07/12/2013 10:34 PM, QAston wrote:> On Saturday, 13 July 
> 2013 at 04:42:58 UTC, QAston wrote:
> >> Also, i don't know what's wrong with parens - 2 additional
> keystrokes?
> >> I didn't see a for loop i a long time - ranges + foreach are
> >> everywhere. And foreach is 4 chars more to type than for :P.
> >
> > Replying to myself, but well, this is flawed, foreach is
> ususally
> > shorter than for.
>
> Especially when for loops can be infinitely long. :) I think 
> the actual syntax of 'for' may be surprising to most:
>
>   http://dlang.org/statement.html#ForStatement
>
> import std.stdio;
>
> void main()
> {
>     for ( {
>             int i = 0;
>             double d = 0.5;
>
>             struct S
>             {
>                 string s;
>             }
>
>             auto s = S("hello");
>
>             writeln("I am in the initialization clause of a for 
> loop!");
>         } i < 10; ++i) {
>
>         writeln("i: ", i, ", d: ", d);
>         d /= s.s.length;
>     }
> }
>
> Ali

I love this feature so much ^^