How to call a method n times in Scala?

Question

I have a case where I want to call a method n times, where n is an Int. Is there a good way to do this in a \"functional\" way in Scala?

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Answer 1

The simplest solution is to use range, I think:

(1 to n) foreach (x => /* do something */)

But you can also create this small helper function:

implicit def intTimes(i: Int) = new {
    def times(fn: => Unit) = (1 to i) foreach (x => fn)
}

10 times println("hello")

this code will print "hello" 10 times. Implicit conversion intTimes makes method times available on all ints. So in your case it should look like this:

event.quantity times queue.enqueue(event.value) 
event.quantity times queue.dequeue()