foreach
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Thu Jun 12 08:08:36 PDT 2014
On Thursday, 12 June 2014 at 15:00:20 UTC, Manu via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> I often find myself wanting to write this:
> foreach(; 0..n) {}
> In the case that I just want to do something n times and I don't
> actually care about the loop counter, but this doesn't compile.
>
> You can do this:
> for(;;) {}
>
> If 'for' lets you omit any of the loop terms, surely it makes
> sense
> that foreach would allow you to omit the first term as well?
> I see no need to declare a superfluous loop counter when it is
> unused.
It's not really a workaround, but you can do:
foreach (_; 0..n)
{
//Do stuff
}
But it still declares a loop variable.
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