[fpc-devel] Modernising Pascal

[Jamie McCracken]

Marco van de Voort wrote:


> 
>>>>2. For Each. Its in Delphi 2005 and every modern language implements it.
>>>
>>>
>>>Yeah, and I still wonder why. There is nothing to gain with it. 
>>
>>one less variable to manually declare
> 
> 
> Implement something in lazarus that auto-adds the variable to the local var
> section. No need for language extensions.

My mistake it actually avoids initialising the loop variable rather than 
not declaring it:

for i in myarray do
   myarray[i] := 0;

as opposed to

for i := low(myarray) to high (myarray) do
    myarray[i] := 0;


I think the for..in is much clearer and more compact (it works for sets, 
arrays and other enumerated types)

jamie.

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