Looping through a method without for/foreach/while
- by RichK
Is there a way of calling a method/lines of code multiple times not using a for/foreach/while loop?
For example, if I were to use to for loop:
int numberOfIterations = 6;
for(int i = 0; i < numberOfIterations; i++)
{
DoSomething();
SomeProperty = true;
}
The lines of code I'm calling don't use 'i' and in my opinion the whole loop declaration hides what I'm trying to do. This is the same for a foreach.
I was wondering if there's a looping statement I can use that looks something like:
do(6)
{
DoSomething();
SomeProperty = true;
}
It's really clear that I just want to execute that code 6 times and there's no noise involving index instantiating and adding 1 to some arbitrary variable.
As a learning exercise I have written a static class and method:
Do.Multiple(int iterations, Action action)
Which works but scores very highly on the pretentious scale and I'm sure my peers wouldn't approve.
I'm probably just being picky and a for loop is certainly the most recognisable, but as a learning point I was just wondering if there (cleaner) alternatives. Thanks.
(I've had a look at this thread, but it's not quite the same)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2248985/using-ienumerable-without-foreach-loop
