Re: [Vala] Ducktyped foreach

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 01:50 -0400, Michel Salim wrote:
> Hi Philip,
>
> On 13/09/2007, Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be> wrote:
> > In .NET you have Ducktyped foreach stuff. This means that you don't need
> > to implement IEnumerable to be usable with foreach statements:
>
> /me wondering if this is not a C# hack because IEnumerable /
> IEnumerator was not generics-enabled .. scary!

I think one of the important reasons is to make value types like structs
also enumeratable. Vala could support iteratable value types too this
way.



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