> Please refer your original post. :)
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> Peter Ives (AKA Pete Ivington)
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Please refer to my previous post. :)
Ok, my understanding of what an infinite loop means, refers to something
that you don't want any programs to get caught up in, because basically
they will keep on cycling through the same piece of code... infinitely.
Below is a simple piece of infinite loop code
10 print 'hello'
20 goto 10
There is no way of getting beyond line 20, so any other code that may
have been written will not get executed. This is very simplistic, but
what does sometimes cause infinite loops is when a programmer creates a
loop who's exit conditions are never met. A simple example:
10 a = 0
20 a = a + 3
30 if a = 10 the goto 50
40 goto 20
50 .... here the next piece of code continues on
Due to a simple mistake by myself I hadn't forseen that a will in fact
never equal 10 and so 3 will continue to be added to a when it has gone
way past 10.
at the beginning a = 0
next 3 is added to make = 3
line 30 tests for a = 10 which it doesn't
line 40 sends the program back to 20 where 3 is added to a to make 6
the test is made again
back to 30 to add 3 to a to make 9
test is made again
back to 30 to add 3 to a to make 12
add infinitum
At no time does a = 10 therefore the loop cannot exit. In reality this
isn't quite an infinite loop as eventually the program would probably
generate an overflow error - number too large! When a became too big,
but you get the idea, I hope. :)
As to why you are concerned about it with regard to your computer
purchase, I'm none too sure.
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