I dun a DIP, possibly the best DIP ever

Meta jared771 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 24 18:54:56 UTC 2020


On Friday, 24 April 2020 at 17:10:16 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> staticIota is kind of another primitive that is super-useful, 
> and would be easy for the compiler to provide. But could be 
> done via CTFE as well.
>
> -Steve

"staticIota" *should* be a primitive, and D even supports this 
functionality in exactly 1 place:

foreach (i; 0..10) { do something }

I wish this was an actual language construct so it could be used 
in other places, and not just some hard coded syntax sugar.


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