if-continue. But I gladly took upon for-in-where as soon as I found out about it since it's more expressive and simply is less typing.
> On Jun 13, 2016, at 2:24 PM, Xiaodi Wu <[email protected]> wrote: > > What did you use before `where` existed? > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 1:29 AM Charlie Monroe via swift-evolution > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> And to follow-up to myself once again, I went to my "Cool 3rd Party Swift >> Repos" folder and did the same search. Among the 15 repos in that folder, a >> joint search returned about 650 hits on for-in (again with some false >> positives) and not a single for-in-while use. >> > >> -- E > > Not to undermine this fact, but I believe the fact that `where` can be used > in a for loop is not widely known. I didn't know about it until about a month > ago (haven't really read much docs, but most people don't either). > > But after I found out about it, I started using it and it IMHO improved > readability of my code. Not by much, but it's the little things that make you > smile, right? > > Many people here argument that `where` is a Swift speciality and needs to be > learned by the developer - the alternative is to teach the person what's the > proper alternative - that using .filter can have performance impact and that > the *correct* way is to use guard within the for loop. And that's IMHO much > worse than teaching a person about using `where` within a for loop. > >> _______________________________________________ >> swift-evolution mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution >> <https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution>_______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution > <https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution>
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