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For _is_ "just sugar for a while loop". In fact, here's the Rust documentation detailing what a `for` loop "de-sugars" down to: http://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly
by jeffparsons 4y ago
For _is_ "just sugar for a while loop". In fact, here's the Rust documentation detailing what a `for` loop "de-sugars" down to: http://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/iter/#for-loops-and-intoiterator http://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/iter/#for-loops-and-int...
> it means something more specific and restricted than a general while
Sure, but that's still sugar. That's what sugar is.
Want to know something really crazy? In Rust, the `if` keyword is also just syntactic sugar over `match`. Still finding bits of grey matter on the walls from when I learned that one.