Foreach Range Statement

[Bill Baxter]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "Xinok" <xnknet at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:f80qof$2n0l$1 at digitalmars.com...
> 
>> foreach(i; 0..100)
> 
> This is almost identical to the syntax in MiniD:
> 
> for(i: 0 .. 100)
> 
> It could be done with for or foreach; I just chose for because normally you 
> use for loops to iterate over ranges of integers.
> 
> You can also come up with a pretty simple short-term solution that'll be 
> fairly efficient (though not as efficient as if the compiler were aware of 
> this kind of loop intrinsically) by making a struct 'range' which has a 
> static opCall to construct a range and an opApply to iterate over the 
> values, so that it'd look like:
> 
> foreach(i; range(100))
> 
> Which isn't terrible at all. 

And it has the advantage of being more extensible.  And for allowing 
ranges to be treated as first class entities that can be passed around 
and manipulated.  But no, instead we get another one-trick pony.

--bb