hclarke

[note: this is a bad idea]

What if a programming language understood plurals for the purposes of foreach loops?

Here's some normal python code:

items = ...
for item in items:
  DoStuff(item)

And here's what it could look like if it understood plurals:

items = ...
foreach item:
  DoStuff(item)

The idea is that item would get pluralized to items, so there's no need to specify the collection that's being looped through. The lnguage could figure it out from the singular!

Here's another example, with nested loops:

data = ...
boxen = ...
codices = ...

foreach datum:
  foreach box:
    foreach codex:
      DoStuff(item,box,codex)