foreach, an analogy

[Andrey Khropov]

Brad Anderson wrote:

> I would guess that Walter has forgotten more about language architectures and
> compiler design than you two ever knew combined.  foreach_reverse is not a
> large enough issue to question Walter's abilities.

My intention was not to offend him personally, but some design decisions seem
to be really strange.
There're foreach analogs in Java 1.5, C#, Python, Ruby etc.
but none of these languages have foreach_reverse. 
Why do you think?

I think because reverse it's not so common operation and should better be
accomplished in such a way (more generic):

---------------
  foreach(i;array.reverseIter)
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IMHO, it's more flexible.

> 
> If you've listened closely, and I don't think you have, he has said repeatedly
> that he sees enough utility (its use w/ arrays) that it's staying.  Give it a
> few releases and hopefully this woeful abomination of sugar won't affect you
> too much.

I think language should be consistent. 
Shouldn't contain unnecessary built-in hacks.
 Why not foreach_inorder, foreach_preorder, foreach_postorder,
 	foreach_depthfirst, foreach_breadthfirst?

Want syntactic sugar for common operations?
Allow syntax extensions such as in Nemerle:
http://nemerle.org/Syntax_extensions