Making the case for repeat

[bearophileHUGS at lycos.com]

pataphor:
> The problem is posting *this*
> function would kill my earlier repeat for sure. And it already had a
> problem with parameters < 0 (Hint: that last bug has now become a
> feature in the unpostable repeat implementation)

Be bold, kill your precedent ideas, and post the Unpostable :-)
Despite people here complaining a bit, you can't hurt posting some
lines of safe code here :-)
But I agree with Steven D'Aprano, adding some explaining words to your
proposals helps.

Bye,
bearophile