Talk:Loops/For with a specified step: Difference between revisions

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: I strongly oppose reinstating dozens of languages inserting a statement to this page, like: “This isn’t possible, but a <tt>while</tt>-loop can achieve the same: <nowiki><</nowiki>code example>”. Well, duh!? It’s ''just'' noise. Please leave that out and use [[Template: omit from|omit from]].

: [[User:Root|Root]] ([[User talk:Root|talk]]) 11:55, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

:: Since you're here: 1) what was so offensive about the Axe for loop, or rather where on earth is your first new point coming from at all? 2) Why delete Delphi completely and just the code from Dragon? 3) What suddenly changed to make that [Delphi] ''ten year old'' example completely unacceptable? There is a reason why this site has draft tasks, and you should be very cautious (and probably discuss things first) before altering a task that was reviewed and promoted to full task status a decade ago. --[[User:Petelomax|Pete Lomax]] ([[User talk:Petelomax|talk]]) 12:33, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

:: Since you're here: 1) what was so offensive about the Axe for loop, or rather where on earth is your first new point coming from at all? <del>2) Why delete Delphi completely and just the code from Dragon?</del> 3) What suddenly changed to make that [Delphi] ''ten year old'' example completely unacceptable? There is a reason why this site has draft tasks, and you should be very cautious (and probably discuss things first) before altering a task that was reviewed and promoted to full task status a decade ago. --[[User:Petelomax|Pete Lomax]] ([[User talk:Petelomax|talk]]) 12:33, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

:::One of this site's unwritten rules (or at least I thought it was) is that you don't alter the descriptions of tasks which already have solutions ''without prior discussion'' and then set about removing implementations that don't fit.