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 a shorter syntax like this:

n.times(doSomething())

Does something like this exist in Scala already?

EDIT

I thought about using Range's foreach() method, but then the block needs to take a parameter which it never uses.

(1 to n).foreach(ignored => doSomething())

Answer 1

You could easily define one as an extension method:

scala> implicit def intWithTimes(n: Int) = new {        
     |   def times(f: => Unit) = 1 to n foreach {_ => f}
     | }
intWithTimes: (n: Int)java.lang.Object{def times(f: => Unit): Unit}

scala> 5 times {
     |   println("Hello World")
     | }
Hello World
Hello World
Hello World
Hello World
Hello World