[ENH] 'value:' raiseTo: 2 -> 'value:value:'

David N. Smith (IBM) dnsmith at watson.ibm.com
Thu Sep 7 17:20:58 UTC 2000


At 9:04 -0700 9/6/00, Dan Ingalls wrote:
>Mats Nygren <nygren at sics.se> asked...
>
>>does this exist already, if so how would I have found it.
>
>No it doesn't.  If it did, then typing
>
>	'abc'. 3. 'abcabcabc'
>
>in the method finder should have found it.  Typing "repeat" there should also likely have found such a method.
>
>There was a thread within the last year about efficient ways to generate repeated strings, but no code made it into the system.  It's worth going back to this if you can find it (or if someone else will point it out.

That was me and I had to defer work on repeat: for a bit. I hope to get back to it ASAP, which might be next week.

Dave
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