Marco van de Voort wrote:
In our previous episode, leledumbo said:
The latter one has iteration overheads, while the former can be optimized to
loop as many as needed. I'm not saying I'm the best Pascal programmer, but
in case there's a (better) solution to this (rather than extending the
language) please tell me.
Your assesment is correct as far as I can see.
However IMHO that doesn't meant you are right. One single case of an
optimalization advantage, and then in a border case like iteration over a
constant set does not justify a language extension.
What is the negative of adding it? To me, I program in a language
because it makes my life easy, not because each keyword has a
certain/clear purpose and cannot be done any other method. The easier FP
is for me to program in (or the less typing I have to do), the better FP
is to me. I'm confused on why not to add it.
Jeremy
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