A suggestion on keyword for_each

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday, August 09, 2013 12:43:08 Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 8/9/13, SteveGuo <steveguo at outlook.com> wrote:
> > I suggest that change keyword *for_each* to *for* since *for* is
> > clear enough and
> > less letters, like C++11 does.
> 
> Not gonna happen. What's this obsession with less letters? foreach is
> common among many modern languages anyway.

Even if it were better to use for rather than foreach, the reality of the 
matter is that at this point in the game, it makes no sense to make changes 
like that. It would break lots of code without actually providing any more 
functionality or fixing any bugs or design flaws in the language.

Now, on top of that, you _couldn't_ use for in place of foreach thanks to how 
crazy versatile D's for loops are (you can put pretty much _anything_ in front 
of the first semicolon - including blocks of code with other for loops). 
Without foreach, there's no way for the compiler to distintguish between when 
you want foreach and when you want a normal for loop. C++ can get away with it 
because its for loops aren't as fancy.

- Jonathan M Davis