No index for cycle ranges

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 6/2/11, Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:38:38 -0400, Andrej Mitrovic
> <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well actually all I wanted was a counter variable. I can put the thing
>> in a for loop or while loop, but I thought that a counter variable is
>> something that the compiler can always add without too much thinking.
>
> Also, BTW, you can still do this with a foreach loop:
>
> size_t idx = ~0;  //hacky, I know.
> foreach(x; range)
> {
>     ++idx;
>     ...
> }
>
> -Steve
>

Heh, I thought I'd never see a use-case for an overflow. Btw., did ya
know you can cram more expressions before the range?

size_t idx;
foreach(x; idx = ~0, [1, 2, 3])
{
    writeln(++idx);
}