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Re: repeating something n times

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Am 05.07.2012 21:13, schrieb Stefan Ram:
>    It is funny how many languages fail to give a means to
>    repeat something n times.
>
>    In Logo, one can write:
>
> repeat 4
>
>    to repeat something 4 times, but in C one needs
>
> for( int i = 0; i < 3; ++i )
>
>    , where the need to introduce a variable in the source code
>    seems redundant in this case and more troublesome and error-prone.

I believe that in the normal/common cases one doesn't simply
"exactly" redo something n times, but does at least a little
bit different in the repetitions. Thus one would need something
to tell the processor whether one does the first time, the second
time, etc. a certain task and consequently an index, e.g. i, would
be quite naturally needed. Maybe you don't like C's for-loop,
because the computational incrementing of i is explicitly shown.
Comparatively less explicit is, for example, in Fortran:

   DO I = 1, 4
      -----
   END DO

M. K. Shen

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Re: repeating something n times Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2012-07-18 20:44 +0200
  Re: repeating something n times "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-07-18 22:00 +0100
    Re: repeating something n times malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com - 2012-07-19 00:48 -0700
      Re: repeating something n times "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-07-19 10:16 +0100
        Re: repeating something n times malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com - 2012-07-19 14:36 -0700

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