Zipping in for loops

-- A script module: no module declaration, so the statements run top to bottom

def things = [
  "Alex"
  "Sam"
  "Jo"
]

-- This is the "foreach" syntax in Nanyx
for things | thing ->
  println(thing)

-- There's no need for an "enumerate" function or similar, because for-loops
-- in Nanyx naturally support zipping. Combine that with the concise syntax
-- for ranges, and you get this:
for things, 0.. | thing, i ->
  println("{i}: {thing}")

-- The advantage of this is as follows:
--   * It's very clear that the index being used is a counter, NOT the actual
--     index of the item (an important distinction that is lost in most languages)
--   * It's immediately clear which loop parameter is the index and which is the
--     item, a distinction that can be quite tricky in other languages when
--     one is looping over a series of ints

This program lives in the repository as examples/zipping.nyx.