I think Frans deliberately made this endless loop in order to demonstrate the (mis)behaviour of MXLOOPS.
J' On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 10:07:42AM +0100, r...@gmx.at wrote: shouldn't it be 'compute i = i+1' ? In the current version you constantly assign i a value of 1 each loop cycle - looks like a classical endless loop to me... best, Rai On 6 Nov 2019 at 9:15, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 9:08 AM Frans Houweling <fhouwel...@email.it> > wrote: > > this syntax: > > > > PSPP> LOOP. > > PSPP> + COMPUTE i = 1. > > PSPP> END LOOP IF i GT 1. > > PSPP> EXECUTE. > > > > makes my session hang forever. > > It looks like a bug because I misunderstood the requirements. I > thought that if > an IF clause was specified then MXLOOPS should not apply, but this > appears > to be wrong. > -- Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3