FOR IN {} suggestion for HP team

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(12-01-2014 03:54 PM)Tim Wessman Wrote:  Why would anyone ever want a loop in a programming language that iterates over a fixed sized collection of some type of object? I can't imagine how that would be useful nor any language that has something similar...

/s

I think the idea was not to actually loop over a fixed sized list, but to simply enable looping over lists so that one could do something like:

Code:


  FOR j IN mylist DO
    PRINT(j);
  END;

where mylist is created dynamically.