Hi!
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RFE: Allow ISO C-like |for()|-loops in arithmetic expressions (and
allow the usage of ';' to seperate arithmetric expressions, e.g. ((
i=0 ; j=1 )) ).
While digging in some more complex arithmetic stuff I noticed that
lots of scripts have code like this:
-- snip --
for (( i=0 ; i < chicken ; i+=monster )) ; do
(( array[i]=i*chicken+monster ))
done
(( monster++ ))
-- snip --
... the issue is that the repeated entering and leaving an arithmetric
expression is slow and looks... ugly.
IMO it may be better if a |for()|-loop like the one above could be
expressed like this:
-- snip --
((
for( i=0 ; i < chicken ; i+=monster )
array[i]=i*chicken+monster;
monster++;
))
-- snip --
... IMO it looks a bit cleaner and is likely faster since the whole
loop is now done in a single arithmetic expression.
Comments/rants/etc. welcome...
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Bye,
Roland
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