A Perspective on D from game industry

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 06/17/2014 04:00 PM, John Colvin wrote:
>
> I though the primary use of static foreach was to force the
> compiler to attempt compile-time iteration even for
> non-TemplateArgList arguments like arrays known at compile-time
>
> e.g.
>
> static foreach(el; [1,2,3,4])
> {
>       pragma(msg, el);
> }
>
> or
>
> static foreach(el; 5 .. 8)
> {
>       pragma(msg, el);
> }

No, that's a distinct use and IMO shouldn't be called static foreach (it 
would be inconsistent with static if in how scopes are handled.)

In any case, it is a quite boring use case as well, one can write a 
template that converts a range into such a list and then plain foreach 
will work.