Siel
Hi everyone, first topic here! currently I’m finishing the ‘Programming Elixir 1.3’ book and I wondered about something…
The String.duplicate\2 function name is not clear… I say this because, at least in my point of view when I say duplicate it automatically referts to make it twice (What’s the meaning of duplicate 3 times ??)
So String.duplicate("a") would return "aa"
It would be something like String.replicate\2 or String.repeat\2 (Replicate n-times or repeat n-times).
I hope I get understood, English isn’t my native language and I’m just learning Elixir at the moment.
Thanks for the wonderful community.
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OvermindDL1
As a native English speaker it makes sense to me, it is used as a verb (where your usage seems to be as a noun):
And since it takes an integer number to be the number of times to duplicate it it makes sense to me, although perhaps that number should default to
2would make sense.Hal9000
I never thought of it before, but I think he is right.
Hal