This week's code snippet, Baklava in F*, is brought to you by Subete and the Sample Programs repo.
module Baklava
open FStar.IO
open FStar.Math.Lib
open FStar.Mul
let baklava_line (n:nat {n <= 20}) : string =
let num_spaces:nat = (abs (n - 10)) in
let num_stars:nat = 21 - 2 * num_spaces in
(String.make num_spaces ' ') ^ (String.make num_stars '*') ^ "\n"
let rec baklava (lines:string) (n:nat {n <= 20}) : string =
match n with
| 0 -> lines ^ (baklava_line 0)
| _ -> lines ^ (baklava_line n) ^ (baklava lines (n - 1))
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