Re: There's got to be a better way

shimmyshack wrote:

it's not rude or abrasive, to notice you don't take advice and say so,
perhaps a little bruusque though, and I apologise if I made you cross.

Apology gladly accepted!

I thought about this further by taking it to extremes. If I was
calling func(a1), func(a2)... func(a100) then it's a no-brainer,
use a for loop. OTOH if I had only two to do, a for loop would
look a bit silly. So which side of the line is five?

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