Maybe we don't need foreach ;-)

Bruno Medeiros brunodomedeiros+spam at com.gmail
Tue Oct 31 05:07:17 PST 2006


Bill Baxter wrote:
> Reiner Pope wrote:
>> I don't see much reason to change the syntax here, since:
>>  - it provides no generalizations/abstractions
> 
> It generalizes 'for'.
> 

No it doesn't. It provides no semantic generalization/orthogonality *as 
well as* no syntactic generalization/orthogonality either. If you think 
of the D grammar, the 'foreach' rule is removed, but another, similar 
one is added to the 'for' rule alternatives.

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Bruno Medeiros - MSc in CS/E student
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