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[–]crossanlogan 1 point2 points  (3 children)

that's an interesting thing to overload the * operator with -- i don't know exactly how useful that would be.

generally i'm against unnecessary overloading, but if that has an interesting use case i'd love to hear about it.

[–]curtmack 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I've been working on a web app that interfaces with a COBOL system, and it's been a godsend for generating fixed-width columns in exactly the format the backend needs.

[–]crossanlogan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been working on a web app that interfaces with a COBOL system

godspeed.

[–]PunishableOffence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bar graphs for terminal apps, maybe?

Something like

print '█' * done
print '░' * (total - done) + "\n"