I think it's fairly common for range implementations to provide an optional
`step` parameter
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Axel Rauschmayer <a...@rauschma.de> wrote:
> On Jan 3, 2012, at 15:46 , Greg Smith wrote:
>
> > What is the use case for .repeat? Trying to imagine some code where I'd
> need it so I can get a feel for how it should work.
>
> So beauty alone does not count? ;-)
>
> It’s true – there are not a lot of use cases for Array.repeat().
>
> But I keep thinking that there should be a way to create an array of a
> given length *with* content in it. Rationale: such an array is nice to have
> as a starting point for a transformation via Array.prototype.map() or an
> array comprehension [1]. How about the following?
>
> Array.range = function (start, end) {
> if (arguments.length < 1 || arguments.length > 2) {
> throw new TypeError("Need one or two arguments");
> }
> if (arguments.length === 1) {
> end = start;
> start = 0;
> }
> var result = [];
> for(var i=start; i < end; i++) {
> result.push(i);
> }
> return result;
> }
>
> Interaction:
>
> > Array.range(4)
> [ 0, 1, 2, 3 ]
> > Array.range(4).map(function () { return "*" })
> [ '*', '*', '*', '*' ]
>
> I’m not yet sure how many use cases there are (suggestions welcome), but
> it does fill a hole (IIRC, Python has something similar).
>
> TODO: This method probably makes more sense as an iterator (e.g.
> implemented via a generator). Then one could even omit the upper limit and
> produce an unlimited sequence.
>
> [1] http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:array_comprehensions
>
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> Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
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>
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