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Re: endless loops suck [message #33835 is a reply to message #33831]

Fri, 31 January 2003 11:38

David Fanning
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Pavel A. Romashkin (pavel_romashkin@hotmail.com) writes:

> I think you can stop a loop if you use BEGIN ... END syntax. Without it,
> the loop is compiled into one command and is not interrupted until
> finished; with it, each item inside is a separate command, so IDL will
> check for breaks every time. I am not sure that it affects the speed at all.

I don't think so. The whole point of the BEGIN ... END syntax
is to make the statements inside appear to be a single statement
to the compiler. The only recourse is to let the loop go to
completion. With an infinite loop, well, they don't call
them "infinite" for no reason. :-)

Cheers,

David
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		Re: endless loops suck By: Thomas Gutzler on Mon, 03 February 2003 17:57
		Re: endless loops suck By: Pete[2] on Mon, 03 February 2003 15:36
		Re: endless loops suck By: Thomas Gutzler on Sun, 02 February 2003 19:18
		Re: endless loops suck By: David Fanning on Sat, 01 February 2003 08:14
		Re: endless loops suck By: David Fanning on Fri, 31 January 2003 11:38
		Re: endless loops suck By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Fri, 31 January 2003 11:11
		Re: endless loops suck By: Timm Weitkamp on Fri, 31 January 2003 05:02
		Re: endless loops suck By: thompson on Tue, 04 February 2003 09:11
		Re: endless loops suck By: thompson on Tue, 04 February 2003 09:13
		Re: endless loops suck By: Timm Weitkamp on Tue, 04 February 2003 01:14

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