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Discussion on: Why avoid Ruby's for .. in?

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Renan Lourençoni Nobile

I'm on mobile right now, when I get a chance I'll run it on my laptop, but knowing that both loops act differently and for in might cause inconstancy is a great point towards each.

Thank you

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John Carroll • Edited

I believe there are use cases for the for .. in syntax right?

So I don't have anything against the for .. in syntax personally, but no, there are no special use cases for it. I mean, I'm sure if you tried you could construct a situation where for might be preferable to .each, but really, it's presence in the language at this point is just vestigial.

I'm not sure I've ever seen it used outside of a tutorial.

I was amused to see that Crystal-lang went so far as to remove it altogether.