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Oct 2 2019, 1:17 pm
 
for( var/v as num in list )
Oct 2 2019, 3:03 pm
Same thing you're doing when you do

verb/Something(mob/M as mob in list)


It's faster than casting the variable type and filtering that way, as long as you don't need the compile-time security.
Oct 2 2019, 3:40 pm
Ran into it reading the reference via F1 in dreammaker. I can see the usefulness but I myself usually keep lists type specific.
Oct 2 2019, 5:33 pm
In response to Kozuma3
On that note, it's more efficient to loop through a list of things that you know the type of with "as anything":
// this is faster
for(var/mob/player/p as anything in Players)

// vs this
for(var/mob/player/p in Players)

With "as anything", the loop doesn't bother filtering the list at all, so if you know for sure that Players only contains /mob/player instances (which it should), then it's faster.
Oct 2 2019, 6:33 pm
In response to Kaiochao
That makes sense, and is cool to know. TILx2