[Noe2097]

The point is not about ignoring them; the point is about using a construction with higher semantics.

A loop is a label+goto in disguise. You have to look at what's inside to understand what the loop is doing; you can't get a global sense of how it is impacting data without looking at what it actually does.

In functional programming, loops are replaced by constructs such as foreach, reduce, map or filter, to indicate right away how the body of the loop operate on the data it is scanning. It enables a functional approach to looping, where one first thinks about how data are transformed -- about the functions to apply on items and what is the overall output of the loop.