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reply "Carl Sturtivant" <sturtivant gmail.com> writes:
This is deprecated according to dmd 64-bit linux, but no error 
message for Mac or Windows, and exhibits different runtime 
behavior on Windows to those other platforms, as I found out from 
my students using it in a current CS2 class.

Is there some reason why assigning to a non-ref foreach variable 
is permitted at all? Naively, it's a value from the loop's range, 
but not a variable, and so the compiler could treat it as such 
and forbid assignment.
Jun 28 2013
parent "bearophile" <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:
Carl Sturtivant:

 Is there some reason why assigning to a non-ref foreach 
 variable is permitted at all? Naively, it's a value from the 
 loop's range, but not a variable, and so the compiler could 
 treat it as such and forbid assignment.
I opened a discussion on this, and later an enhancement request, that the very good Kenji has done some improvements. Currently this code compiles and runs: void main() { import std.stdio; foreach (i; 0 .. 10) { i.writeln; i++; } writeln; foreach (ref i; 0 .. 10) { i.writeln; i++; } } That prints: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 2 4 6 8 I think both are not so good. Also in D this is a common bug: struct S { int x; } void main() { import std.stdio; auto data = [1.S, 2.S, 3.S]; foreach (item; data) item.x++; data.writeln; } That prints: [S(1), S(2), S(3)] See some threads: http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=155816 And some issues: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5306 http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6214 http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6652 Thanks to Kenji the situation is improved compared to the past, but I think the current situation is not yet good enough... Bye, bearophile
Jun 28 2013