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Re: strange behaviour of .skip command [message #60371 is a reply to message #60370]

Thu, 15 May 2008 11:01

manodeep@gmail.com
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On May 15, 9:21 am, pgri...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Simply put a "stop" instead of your random test, and resume execution
> with .continue.
> Then there is no need to use .skip.
>
> Cheers,
> Paolo

In this case, I completely agree but the need to use a .skip does
arise if there happens to be one line of offending code. Using .skip
in such a case could lead to "for loops" not being completely
executed, or execution falling through to the "else" part of an "if-
else" condition.

So, my understanding is that you are fine as long as using .skip does
not take you to the end of a control flow statement. If using .skip
does take you to a endif/endfor statement, then the code will behave
somewhat unexpectedly.

As David pointed out, the behaviour of .skip can have implications
that are not immediately obvious !

Cheers,
Manodeep

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		Re: strange behaviour of .skip command By: David Fanning on Thu, 15 May 2008 11:19
		Re: strange behaviour of .skip command By: manodeep@gmail.com on Thu, 15 May 2008 11:01
		Re: strange behaviour of .skip command By: pgrigis on Thu, 15 May 2008 06:21
		Re: strange behaviour of .skip command By: David Fanning on Wed, 14 May 2008 20:46

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