Equivalent Ruby .times in Coffeescript

Question

What is the most concise equivalent Coffeescript to the following:

# ruby    
3.times { puts \'hi\' }

?

The best I could think of is:

Answer 1

JavaScript arrays (at least the modern ones) have a forEach method and CoffeeScript [1..3] ranges are arrays so you could do this:

[1..3].forEach -> console.log 'hi'

One warning though: this might be a bit hard on the browser if your n in [1..n] is large as you'll be building a large array just to get a convenient notation; but if n is small then the overhead of building the array shouldn't matter that much.