repeat construct

[DeletedAccount]

I just thought of a construct , Although it is not that useful it does save some keystrokes

eg

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repeat 8
{
   do_somthing();
}

means to repeat do_something 8 times . The grammar for the repeat construct is

RepeatStatemet -> "repeat" Expression Block

may be we can make use of a special variable to mark the current iteration.
eg

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repeat  10
{
   array[current_iteration] = 0;
} 

I think this is far natural than

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for(int k= 0 ; k < 10; k++)do_something;

I am back ...[/code]

[Korona]

I think Pascal has a construct like that. As you said it is not that useful so I do not miss it in my programming language. for-Loops are fine.

[01000101]

int count = 8;
while(count--){do_something();}

I don't think that is very difficult?

[DeletedAccount]

Yes , i think pascal has. I do not remember exactly, but i only have a reading familiarity with pascal . I do not use pascal much .

[Laksen]

Pascal doesn't have an explicit iterative repeat construct. Instead the repeat in pascal goes like
repeat
"statements"
until "expression";

[B.E]

If you cange the syntax just a bit to "repeat (10)..." you could use a macro for this

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#define repeat(x) for(int i=0;i<x;i++)

[Combuster]

Repeat is an integral part of the LOGO programming language. In fact, that's the only thing you can use as it doesn't have for loops.

[DeletedAccount]

Logo is more powerful than i thought , Check out the ucblogo website . Please take a look at the series Computer Science Logo style ... Excellently written set of books

[DeletedAccount]

Check this out http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/

[Craze Frog]

FASM has a repeat macro, which simply repeats the given instructions (no loops involved, they are inserted multiple times).

[DeletedAccount]

I do not think macros are a part of the language , they just simply perform text substitution ..if repeat is a macro try somthing like this and find the size of the executable ..

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#include <limits.h>

repeat INT_MAX
{
   repeat INT_MAX
  {
    do_something ():
  }
}

[DeletedAccount]

As an example of how easy it is to add repeat constuct to an existing programming language i have provided an implementation of basic like language known as SanBasic with support for repeat construct ... As an example

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repeat  4
  print "Mu ha ha ha "
rend 

[DeletedAccount]

he he fixed a bug