repeat

[Walter Bright]

Christopher Nicholson-Sauls wrote:
> On 01/18/11 03:07, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> I want to generalize the functionality in string's repeat and move it
>>> outside std.string. There is an obvious semantic clash here. If you
>>> say repeat("abc", 3) did you mean one string "abcabcabc" or three
>>> strings "abc", "abc", and "abc"?
>> Just a thought:
>>
>>     concat(repeat("abc",3))
>>
>> yields "abcabcabc"
>>
>> ?
> 
> Nah.  Too obvious.
> 
> On a more serious note, I have no issue with join(repeat("abc",3)).

Eh, I forgot about join!