Building a string from n chars

["Nordlöw" via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 4 September 2014 at 19:22:42 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
> Is DMD/Phobos already that clever!?

Further -vgc has nothing to say about

     string t1; t1 ~= '*'.repeat(n).array;
     string t2; t2 ~= "*".replicate(n);

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