[Coco] Re: More on FOR-NEXT

Diego Barizo diegoba at adinet.com.uy
Tue Jun 13 19:01:24 EDT 2006


I am mostly worried about memory usage and/or slowdown because the loop 
is not completed.
I'm guessing memory should not be a big issue...

Diego


Arthur Flexser wrote:
> But using his first example rather than the second doesn't affect anything
> you've mentioned.  Merely setting the loop variable to the value it would
> normally have on loop completion doesn't affect the presence of leftover loop
> stuff on the stack if you exit the loop with a GOTO.
>
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>> ----------------- Original Message ----------------------
>> When forcing an exit from a FOR-NEXT loop, does it make any difference 
>> to do a clean exit, by manually changing the variable value and GOTOing 
>> to the NEXT line, or is it the same that just GOTO?
>> Ex:
>> 10 FOR A=1 TO 10
>> 20 IF P=3 THEN A=11:GOTO  30
>> 30 NEXT A
>> 40 REM REST OF THE PROGRAM
>>
>>  is any better than
>>
>> 10 FOR A=1 TO 10
>> 20 IF P=3 THEN 40
>> 30 NEXT A
>> 40 REM REST OF THE PROGRAM
>>
>> Diego
>>
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