[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Quoting Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> In perl you could do:
>> perl -e 'for(1..80){print "*";}print "\n";'
>
> Can you just explain how to use this for ? It seems far away the ones I know
> (C,C++,basic,Java,php,etc.)
That invocation happens to do the perlish thing of setting $_ to each
of 1, 2, 3, ..., 80 in turn. Perl also supports the C-like for, but
that's not what you'd use in a one-liner.
For gratuitousness, in a completely different style:
(define (star-string n)
(define (star-helper n s)
(if (= n 0) s
(star-helper (- n 1) (concat "*" s))))
(star-helper n ""))
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