Re: Infinit loop in /free

["Wilbert van der Hoeven" <hoeveb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Now you're just nitpicking.  If you write programs where you set ON to
> *off, you have far deeper problems than I can help you with.

I'll talk to my shrink....
I would never set On to *Off. But I can't  guarentee that the other 5
programmers that changed the program after I wrote it will not have changed
the program and set On to *Off somewhere.


> Personally, I don't code infinite loops, so I don't care.  I ALWAYS code
> my programs with some sort of condition:
>
> Done = *off;
> DoU Done;

Every loop is infinite untill you meet a condition that makes you leave the
loop. You set Done to *on and then wait untill the program reaches the DO
statement again. Meanwhile preventing that statements that are not
applicable anymore are skipped and that DONE isn't reset by accidence. To me
that is not simple and clean.
I think that the DO statement is not the right place to leave the loop. The
right place for me to leave the loop is the place where you meet a condition
to leave that loop.  No chance of making mistakes.

Wilbert