extend foreach to work on non-arrays
meppl
mephisto at nordhoff-online.de
Thu May 24 23:03:34 UTC 2018
On Thursday, 24 May 2018 at 22:43:00 UTC, IntegratedDimensions
wrote:
> Doesn't make any sense?
>
> foreach(a; x)
>
> if x is not an array then a = x and the loop reduces simply and
> function to the case it is not so their can be no harm.
>
> It unifies the concepts so that one does not have to worry if x
> is an array or not and can offer no harm since when x is not an
> array everything simply reduces to an an alias of x.
on the otherhand some programmer might want to get informed buy
an error-msg, if he accidentally used a non-iteratable variable
for `foreach`-iteration. To avoid a silent bug
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