[Feature] Add support for string multiplication (str * num)

[Luna-Klatzer]

Is there an existing proposal for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

This feature does not exist in the latest version

• I am using the latest version

Proposal

Add support for the Python-like syntax of multiplying strings a number of times.

For example:

var base: str = "x";
var repetitions: num = 5; 
var result: str = base * repetitions;

print(result); // -> "xxxxx"

This would remove the need of writing a custom loop manually concatenating each string and allow for better compiler optimisations, where the compiler could simply/stupidly optimise it down to the following:

base + base + base + base + base

In case the amount of repetitions becomes too large, the following method could be used instead to save up on file size (In JavaScript/TypeScript compatible environments):

base.repeat(5);

Exact behaviour / changes you want

• Add support for arithmetic expressions between the type str and num.
• Add compiler optimisations for the new type of string multiplication.
• Add warning for useless string multiplications.