Does D have too many features?

Era Scarecrow rtcvb32 at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 29 16:54:21 PDT 2012


On Sunday, 29 April 2012 at 15:07:26 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Sunday, 29 April 2012 at 14:40:38 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> foreach ([1, 2, 3, 4], (i)  { writeln(i); });
>>
>> The above already works today. If we can a bit syntax sugar 
>> for delegates and inlinable delegates we could have this:
>>
>> foreach ([1, 2, 3, 4] ; i) {
>>    writeln(i);
>> }
>
> We'd still need a solution for continue and break, though.

  A thought coming to mind regarding this, is a special exception. 
If the compiler recognizes it's part of a foreach (or other loop) 
then continue gets converted to return, and and break throws an 
exception (caught by the foreach of course)

  But that involves more compiler magic.



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