OpenEuphoria

Re: New "maxstatements" feature suggestion

• Posted by Alan Oxley <fizzpop at axxess.co.za> Jun 08, 2007
• 627 views

Bernie Ryan wrote:
> 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  
> 

True, this can be done. But to be safe, it would have to be coded
wherever you suspect there might be a problem. And in the other
places that you didn't suspect? Or put it in *every* loop?
I admit I'm lazy. Why not get the language to help me out
with a builtin. As Pete says there will be overhead though; 
so why not have it as an optional like "with profile" 
"with type_check" "with trace"? These also have overhead but you  
turn them off when convenient.

Regards
Alan