Swift deprecate i++ and c-style for loop

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On Wednesday, 24 February 2016 at 16:37:04 UTC, Suliman wrote:
> https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
>
> func slices() {
>     var array = ["First", "Second", "Third", "Fourth"]
>     array.removeLast()
>     array.removeFirst()
> }
>
> also look very intuitive. I looked at std.algorithm.mutation 
> and did not find anything for this. I see only simple remove 
> option.

The D equivalent is this:

array = array[0..$ - 1];
array = array[1..$];

Arguably just as intuitive.