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  Re: repeating something n times "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2012-07-06 07:16 -0500
    Re: repeating something n times Ike Naar <ike@sverige.freeshell.org> - 2012-07-06 12:57 +0000

#1903 — Re: repeating something n times

"Stefan Ram" <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote in message 
news:repeat-20120705210751@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de...
>  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 )
>

In C, you're gonna need:

for(i = 0; i < 4; ++i)

Where "i" is declared earlier.  You can *not* declared "i" as integer... 
within the for() of the statement.  In C++ you can, but *not* in C.

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numerist at aquaporin4 dot com 

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#1904

On 2012-07-06, Charles Richmond <numerist@aquaporin4.com> wrote:
> "Stefan Ram" <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote in message 
> news:repeat-20120705210751@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de...
>>  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 )
>>
>
> In C, you're gonna need:
>
> for(i = 0; i < 4; ++i)
>
> Where "i" is declared earlier.  You can *not* declared "i" as integer... 
> within the for() of the statement.  In C++ you can, but *not* in C.

As from the 1999 C standard, you can.

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