Avoid the use of for and while loops in Lobster

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What happens

I need to avoid the use of for and while loops for my challenge to be approved

What do you understand or find about that problem

I know that in a lot of langs I can avoid the use of them (like map in JS), but in Lobster I can’t find a way to do it because of the limited documentation

You make any workaround? What did you do?

After searching, I didn’t find anything because of the limited documentation

Evidences

These two are my principal references:
http://aardappel.github.io/lobster/language_reference.html
http://aardappel.github.io/lobster/builtin_functions_reference.html

I need help with

I need a way or an idea about how to do it

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The main purpose of avoiding FOR and WHILE structures is to follow the fuctional programming paradigm. So, that’s it. You can “iterate” over a structure (collection, list, vector) through RECURSIVE CALLS to a function. That’s the main idea, however you can see a good explanation of “How to convert a loop (while/for) to recursion” here: algorithms - General way to convert a loop (while/for) to recursion or from a recursion to a loop? - Software Engineering Stack Exchange

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Hi @season-embodiment

In this link you can find different ways to implement loops in lobster.

https://aardappel.github.io/lobster/C_style%20language%20Cheat%20Sheet%20for%20Lobster.html

I hope that it help you.