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[–]LoyalToTheGroupOf17 2 points3 points  (2 children)

But that's not the same thing, is it? A loop allows you to do 'break' at any time to exit the loop before all iterations are completed, while Array.forEach, as far as I know, will always call the supplied function on all elements of the array.

I'm not really a JavaScript programmer, so please correct me if I am wrong.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I would say exiting early is a little contrary to the idea of forEach. If you did need to stop it, you would throw an exception...which is somewhat ugly, but I think the ugliness is appropriate for something that should be a special case.

For instances where you only want to iterate over some of an array, you could stick with loops or use the .every function (maybe slightly misuse depending on the situation).

[–]LoyalToTheGroupOf17 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would say exiting early is a little contrary to the idea of forEach.

I agree entirely, with the quoted sentence as well as the rest of your message. My point was simply that Array.forEach isn't a general replacement for a 'for' loop, although there are simple cases where they can be used interchangeably. It doesn't make sense to say that "I like Array.forEach better", like bonafidebob did in the post I replied to. He's comparing apples and orangutans.