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		resurge on May 25, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Display 100 Hello World Without Using Loops I wonder why 430gj9j added exec.. `print "Hello world\n"*100` Would have worked just fine.

lloeki on May 25, 2012 [–]

He abstracted this loop:

    for i in xrange(100):
        statement

into:

   exec "statement" * 100

The 'no exec' alternatives propose something not as generic since they can only print something a number of times.

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