On 11/15/13 11:39 AM, Chris wrote:
Well, that was exactly my point. As a human being you don't need the
patronizing (and highly annoying) "for every number ...". This is what
you say when you explain it to a newbie. But there is no need to spell
this out in the syntax. Syntax of programming languages is (or should
be) like road signs, or any other signs. Concise and expressive. Else,
what's the point? I know that languages like Lua have the philosophy
that non-programmers should be able to use it. But every human being is
capable of abstracting things. There is no need for this terrible syntax
(2..max).each do:
end
No need to do that. You can, if you want to. I would have done:
2.upto(max) do
...
end
It doesn't add anything to the code except for useless characters.
What do you mean by useless characters? How do you do it in D?
