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		jrockway on Sept 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lodash just declared issue bankruptcy and closed e... If your language has a `for` keyword, I would just say use the `for` keyword.

yakshaving_jgt on Sept 17, 2023 | [–]

But why?

The language I use has various flavours of `for`. It also has various flavours of map and fold. It also has recursion.

They each do different things. Those differences are meaningful and useful. Why would you limit yourself to just using `for`?

izietto on Sept 17, 2023 | [–]

It depends. It isn't the case for Ruby, for example.

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