[Language construct idea] The for loop with prepare step
Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole
richard at cattermole.co.nz
Tue Feb 13 00:59:36 UTC 2024
On 13/02/2024 6:52 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> One example of the usefulness of a loop construct that supports the
> above construct in full generality is the outputing of list delimiters.
> If we postulate a syntax construct like:
>
>
> |loop { loopBodyBeforeCondition(); } while(cond) {
> loopBodyAfterCondition(); } |
>
>
> then, given some range r of items, we can output it with delimiters like
> this:
>
>
> |loop { writef("%s", r.front); r.popFront; } while(!r.empty) { write(",
> "); } |
Oh I quite like this.
```d
do {
} while(cond) {
}
```
```d
foreach(...) {
} while {
}
```
I would use this a lot.
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