So I was doing some coding today and in the IDE as you type a keyword,
the syntax options popup. You can arrow down to the one you want and
press tab to have the code template for the syntax filled in.
I was typing a 'repeat for each..." loop when I notices the popup list
of syntax options had a "... with index"! WOW, I thought, some new
syntax was added to included an automatic counter variable with a 'for
each' loop. This is great!
I could really use a syntax like "repeat for each line tLine in
container with index" where "index" gets auto incremented for each loop.
I immediately opened the dictionary (LC 9.6.6) to check the syntax and
usage and was surprised to find NO reference to the "with index"
(apparent) syntax. Well, okay, sometime the Dictionary fails to get
updated with the latest stuff, so I'll go back to the IDE and just try
it! So I pick that syntax options and I get:
put 0 into tIndex
repeat for each line tLine in container
add 1 to tIndex
-- code
end repeat
Which, of course, is how we all do it.
While it is nice the IDE syntax feature kindly placed this whole code
snippet, I feel like a "Bait and Switch" was just pulled on me! An now I
really want LC, Ltd. to add a "with tIndex" syntax to the repeat for
each loop structure!
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