# How To Do A For Loop In Elixir (using only recursion)

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**Tags:** recursion, code-snippets\
**Created:** [May 13, 2016, 1:18pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/how-to-do-a-for-loop-in-elixir-using-only-recursion/595 "2016-05-13T13:18:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/how-to-do-a-for-loop-in-elixir-using-only-recursion/595/5 "2016-05-13T16:21:38Z")

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That blog entry is irrelevant 😉 Do you really consider your solution to be simplest?

`ForLoop.for_loop(10,&(IO.puts(&1)))`  
`Enum.each(0..10, &(IO.puts(&1)))`  
`for x <- 0..10, do: IO.puts x`

Try to look at this code like had no knowledge about programming whatsoever, and answer yourself this: Which line describes what is going to happen when you run it best?

There was some passive aggressive PS. here. And it was uncalled for.

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