Is there a brief syntax for executing a block n times in Scala?

Question

I find myself writing code like this when I want to repeat some execution n times:

for (i <- 1 to n) { doSomething() }

I\'m looking for

Answer 1

It can be as simple as this:

scala> def times(n:Int)( code: => Unit ) {
          for (i <- 1 to n) code
       }
times: (n: Int)(code: => Unit)Unit

scala> times(5) {println("here")}
here
here
here
here
here