Wow, the counter var was never actually used in the compiler and stdlib?

@straight-shoota i didn't even realise loop do had an index lol

In the event anyone wants this feature back, I've put together a shard to replace this functionality. When the compiler eventually raises an exception on integer overflows, I'll patch my shard to handle that accordingly.

Sidenote: the ability for me to bring a small feature like this back is one of my favorite features of Crystal! 😄

@Willamin I don't think this is helpful. That behaviour was removed for a reason. If you want to use a short cut to have looping block with an incrementing counter, it should have a different name at least.
And it hardly makes any sense to require a shard for such a simple six line method.

I'll patch my shard to handle that accordingly.

What would that be? If there was a way to deal with that which would work for every use case, it could've stayed in the stdlib implementation.

When the compiler eventually raises an exception on integer overflows, I'll patch my shard to handle that accordingly.

and do what? reset back to 0? That's even worse than raising!