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| I really don't see the benefit.

And you won't while you just pass it off as something that "just makes your code compact."

Regarding your comment about comments -> imagine a world where there were no for loops, then somebody invents a for loop. What would you say to the person who shoots it down because it just "makes code compact" and programmers don't want to have to add a comment above a cryptic 'for loop' explaining what it does?



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