Bill Baxter wrote:
> BCS wrote:
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>> Bill Baxter wrote:
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>>> And there's probably even something cleaner using exceptions or scope statements.
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>> Who cares about clean? The compiler's doing it, all that I want is fast code.
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> I agree that foreach shouldn't induce excessive overhead.  But maybe I differ in that I'd gladly take a small speed hit for improved readability/usability/maintainablility.  I don't think foreach needs to compile down to the exact same code as the best possible for loop.
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Actually, I was referring to clean/messy code generation. Clean source code is a must. What the compiler does with it... Who cares? Sort of like lex/yacc, the derived code is so ugly that nobody wants to maintain it by hand, but nobody has to.

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> --bb