On 07/17/2016 04:46 PM, Jim Rees wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Per Bothner <xxxxxx@bothner.com <mailto:xxxxxx@bothner.com>> wrote:

>     What about (string-repeat N S) or (string-repeat S N), where S is either a string
>     or a character?  Does either procedure conflict with any prior art?
>
>
> SRFI-13 xsubstring and SRFI-135 textual-replicate -- aka. SRFI-140 string-replicate -- would be the closest I can I come up with.   Their required arguments would make them an inconvenient replacement though, so string-repeat seems appropriate.

It seems reasonable to have both string-replicate and also string-repeat as
a convenience function:

   (define (string-repeat S N)
      (let ((T (if (character? S) (string S) S)))
        (string-replicate T 0 (* N (string-length T))))
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