[fpc-pascal] for..in loops?

Florian Klaempfl florian at freepascal.org
Sun Nov 20 13:23:12 CET 2005


Lukas Gebauer wrote:
>>foreach ... in ... do adds no additional abstraction layer. I consider
>>foreach usefull if it allows to create own iterators which are as fast as
>>walking a linked list with p:=p^.next; Especially since it then allows
>>e.g. to write iterators with data prefetching.
> 
> 
> Just my two cents:
> 
> For-in loops is standard part of Delphi-2006 pascal language. (Not only 
> for .NET, it is for Win32 too!)
> 
> I think, if Freepascal wish to stay Delphi compatible, then is good idea 
> to implement this features too. Look to next Pascal language enhancements 
> in Delphi-2006... (like operator overloads or class variables...)

... which has fpc for years :)



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