C++ still doesn't have good loop syntax

[Quirin Schroll]

On Wednesday, 15 July 2026 at 15:00:13 UTC, Meta wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 July 2026 at 01:43:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> ```d
>> import std.stdio;
>>
>> string[9] vec = [
>>    "the", "quick", "brown", "fox",
>>    "jumped", "over", "the", "lazy", "dog"
>> ];
>>
>> void main()
>> {
>>     foreach (i, s; vec)
>>         writeln(i, ": ", s);
>> }
>> ```
>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915184
>>
>> ```C++
>> vector<string> vec = {
>>     "the", "quick", "brown", "fox",
>>     "jumped", "over", "the", "lazy", "dog"
>> };
>>
>>
>>
>> for (int i=0; auto&& it: vec)
>>     cout << (++i) << ": " << it << endl;
>> ```
>> https://lzon.ca/posts/tips/cpp-for-range-init/
>
> Hoping we can someday make the D example even better with 
> static static array length inference 👌
>
> ```d
> string[$] vec = [ ... ]; // or some equivalent syntax
> ```

D’s going to have it soon:
https://dlang.org/changelog/pending.html#dmd.sarr-length-infer