Ch. 1 For loop example is not valid code

[stringdom]

The following code used as example of a for loop does not compile on Zig 0.10.0 and therefore is not valid.

test "for" {
    //character literals are equivalent to integer literals
    const string = [_]u8{ 'a', 'b', 'c' };

    for (string, 0..) |character, index| {  // This line gives an error for the compiler expects ')' not a comma ',' after string.
        _ = character;
        _ = index;
    }

The compiler complaints that there cannot be a comma after the string type inside the for loop declaration.

I don't know if this is due to a change that's now valid in nightly 0.11 but it does raises the question, what should the documentation be targeting. The moving nightly or a previous stable version. However not yet very well defined that concept might be right now.

[Drakx]

I'm getting the same issue with stable

[stringdom]

I just noticed that Ch. 0 states that the latest version of Zig is 0.10.1 then later on, in the installation instructions, suggests that the user should see an output to zig version of 0.11.0-dev.2777+b95cdf0ae after following the install procedure.

Which means that currently ziglearn tests and compiles correctly on zig-0.11.0-dev.3395+1e7dcaa3a but does not on 0.10.1

From the Zig-lang.org webpage:

Latest Release: 0.10.1

I think the user should be instructed to install the latest release, not the nightly development version.
But, it seems there's no interest on discussing this?