Natural "for" Loop, using Plural / Singular transformations ??

Dear Compiler Cracks,


What about using Plural => Singular transformations to generate loop
variables from name of lists?




EXAMPLE:


    FOR dependency IN dependencies DO
            PRINT dependency.name
    END


= depenendcies -generates-> dependency =


    FORALL dependencies DO
            PRINT dependency.name
    END


The compiler would generate the "singular" loop variable "dependency"
from the List "dependencies" (Plural).


This would reduce the code size, improve those long, unreadable headers
and simply plain-editor refactoring.


Any comments?
Olivier


PS: This idea is ispired by "Ruby on Rails" ORM, using Plural for the
Database-Tables.
[OK, what's the plural of deer or sheep? Attempts to make programming
languages have a long history. Cobol was the first and I think the
most successful, and although it was very successful as a language,
giving us stuff like C structures, it was pretty much a failure as
English. -John]

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