On Thursday, 20 July 2017 at 14:05:36 UTC, Iakh wrote:
It is not about reduce number of lines. It is about binding related things in one statement.
Even so, it's already been shown in this thread that the same effect can be achieved via a block statement (doing exactly what it was designed for) or with a for loop.
It's an small increase in terseness for a decrease in readability and an increase in complexity.