for, foreach identifier allowed in c throws error in d

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:21:06 -0400, Logesh Pillay  
<lp.court.jester at gmail.com> wrote:

> It is common in a recursive function to amend a global array using the  
> function parameter to refer to the element eg
>
> int[10];
>
> void foo (int i) {
>    foreach (x; 0 .. 9) {
>       t[i] = x;
>       foo ();
>
> C in a for loop allows use of t[i] directly as the iterating variable so  
> you don't need the dummy variable x which has no real function.
>
> D does not.  The error generated is "no identifier for declarator t[i]".  
> For a long time, I thought that was specific to foreach but the same  
> thing happens with for.
>
> It looks like an unnecessary restriction.  Am I missing something?

Can you post a full compiling example? I can't figure out what you are  
trying to do with this code.

-Steve