On 21/06/14 04:34, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Peter Haworth <p...@lcsql.com> wrote:
Wondering if anyone has an elegant way of exiting all the way out of a set
of nested repeat loops., e.g:
It's a badly needed language addition, and one of the things I want from
Fortran.
Then again, I actually used a GOTO in the software for my dissertation,
after realizing it was the rare case one was called for, and had spent
hours making parallel sets of code to avoid it. (not to mention what I did
with a trailing preposition in that last sentence!)
This is where some sort of "get out quickly" phrase is needed.
Yesterday one of my 12 year old 'victims' was getting her feet wet with
her first SWITCH statement,
and got badly bogged down, and we found that
exit switch
seemed to work a bit better than
break
the 'funny' thing is that the Dictionary (err: "Hitch Hiker's Guide to
the Galaxy") says they are synonymous; but, as we linguists say 'no 2
words are ever completely synonymous'.
I suppose a GOTO statement would be really good; especially as, although
Livecode scripts
supposedly don't have line numbers, there are those numbers down the
left-hand side :/
The only bother about those numbers is that every time one pops a bit of
code into one's script they will refer to different places.
This sort of thing might not be bad:
put 1 into XX
repeat until XX>7
do something
put 1 into ZZ
repeat until ZZ>7
do something else
put 1 into YY
repeat until YY>7
ask "What colour are you socks?"
if it contains "purple" then
goto %%%
end if
add 1 to YY
end repeat
add 1 to ZZ
end repeat
add 1 to XX
end repeat
%%%
Richmond.
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