style guide says I should use classic for loop ove...
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10/20/2018, 2:10 AMstyle guide says I should use classic for loop over forEach. I am paranoid android and dont want to instantiate iterators on arraylists, so, would creating a extension function forXYZ, which is just a for until loop, be considered antipattern?
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karelpeeters
10/20/2018, 7:37 AMYou're afraid of creating
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Dominaezzz
10/20/2018, 9:57 AMAlthough iterators are fairly lightweight. They are optmized out and an indexed for loop is used under the hood. (For arrays only). 🙂
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karelpeeters
10/20/2018, 10:01 AMFor arrays, sure. But for lists? Anyway, the difference really shouldn't matter.
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ursus
10/21/2018, 2:17 PMWell looking at the bytecode the iterator is there. No im not afraid, but if there is a solution without it, with same level of sugar, why not? Can be helpful on android
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karelpeeters
10/21/2018, 3:05 PMYou would love
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ursus
10/21/2018, 3:54 PMWell, android endorsed it, and given list are usually small, i think its reasonable to do so, and its theoretically faster. And with kotlin you can give it the same amount of sugar
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