Super-dee-duper D features

[Derek Parnell]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:39:46 +0100, Frits van Bommel wrote:

> Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
>> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>> Yeh, I don't get it either.  How would that help me implement merge() 
>>> from merge sort for instance?
>> 
>> Merge bumps the iteration in both collections conditionally. The form 
>> above bumps the iteration in the two collections unconditionally, until 
>> one is finished; then it continues with the other until that is finished.
> 
> In other words, it doesn't :(.

I imaging that the full syntax will also include this form ...

  foreach (int x, i ; coll1) (int y, j ; coll2) 
  {
   ... use i and j ...
     if (somecondition)
        x = ...  // To set the index back or forward to some
                 // arbitary point in the array 'coll1'.
  }

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