DMD 0.170 release

[Bruno Medeiros]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Added foreach_reverse, which addresses a serious shortcoming.
>>>
>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/changelog.html
>>
>> foreach_reverse addresses a serious shortcoming? What is that, if 
>> instead of:
>>   foreach_reverse(Foo f; aggregate) { ...
>> I can do:
>>   foreach(Foo f; &aggregate.opApplyReverse) { ...
>>
>> The latter form is both more general (allows any kind of iterators) 
>> and more simple/orthogonal (no extra special statements are needed).
> 
> The latter form works now.

I know it does (I said "can do" instead of "could do" :P ). So my 
question remains.

PS: Note, for better readability, one can use a different (and better) 
delegate name:
   foreach(Foo f; &aggregate.iterReverse) { ...

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