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Re: New "maxstatements" feature suggestion

• Posted by Bernie Ryan <xotron at bluefrog.com> Jun 08, 2007
• 678 views

Alan Oxley wrote:
> 
> Your suggestion works for the programmer while developing/debugging.
> I'd like a solution where a enduser won't have his machine locked
> up due to a bug in a GUI. Users put in strange parameters/criteria that I
> don't
> think of, and its therefore not covered.
>  

Alan:

Simply put a constant at the top of your program.

constant
MAXLOOP = 10
integer ctr

Then when you have a loop that your concern about
put a test to exit or abort().
 
if MaxLoop = ctr then exit else ctr += 1 end if  

Bernie

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