... I do because if you mess up and give it a infinite condition, you risk crashing whatever you are programming! Not matter WHAT language you are using, if you mess up a while loop, expect to have to smack ctrl+alt+del to abort.

So... to make SOME sort of discussion out of this, have you ever got yourself in a mess because you wrote a bad while loop? What language and what program did you freeze up and crash because of your mistake?

For me... I've crashed Jedi Knight once while doing come cogging on weapon selection. (game frozed and I was forced to reset the computer) Another time was in JavaScript when coding a menu roll over. I had a alert message in the while loop so I had to use ctrl+alt+del to abort IE because alert boxes disable the window (BTW... a great way to piss off visiters from your website if you code this in intentionally, hehe!). Another time was in ActionScript in which I was doing weapon selection (again). It crashed Flash and I lost some code in the process (Errr!! ).

-- SavageX

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ctrl + break

I created in infinite loop in php once... uses all my sites bandwidth in seconds

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Lots of C++ compilers will attempt to detect such loops. And not to mention, if it is a console program, just hit ctrl+c. Bang, end of program.

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And not if you're using a well-configured implementation of PHP.. it has a run limit of 30 seconds if that kinda thing happens

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Way back in school, I did something like this using some PASCAL program, maybe even using BASICA, and I created an infinite loop by accident. The teacher had to halt the current lesson, and teach us how to get out of something like that. Funny...

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When I was trying to program an asteroids clone in Visual Basic, I accidentally filled the memory and caused a bluescreen using some DLL... And I think I almost did it twice.

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My friend in high school created this infinte loop that created 256 directory tree and made the last one readonly. Crashed the server and he got suspended from computer access. Back in those days, the server ran off of MS-DOS 3.3 Bad Times

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while (true) { } Is the best loop EVER.

I've crashed from cogging JK soo many times
But then again cogging was one of my primary investments of time for several years, so i had lots of opportunities.

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The *cough*Java*cough* compiler Ready to Program has a "stop" button -- I don't need to worry.

I haven't done any cog while-loops except "while(1)", for a broken light cog. I usually use for-loops.

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In PHP I use foreach loops as if they were going out of style- and they might be.

I was once programming my Tetris game in VB for a good two hours.. ran it.. Infinite loop. Much cryage.

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Hm, this doesn't seem to be too much of a problem for me. If you are using an interperated language (python, perl...) you can just run it from a terminal and press ctl+c if it messes up.

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I think I speak for the programmers amongst us when I say: "any type of loop that isn't properly/logically implemented, can be an absolute bia*ch!" - and ditto Dor's comments

Java - good old Java - has provided me with it's fair share of crashes, courtesy of arrays and loop-based implementations, often only at runtime. Yep - runtime errors are the real bain of programmer's lives (oxymoron? ) "bypassing" the compiler's syntax checking... and then bomb you out of the program (or worse-case - hang the system)

My advice - stay away from "while" loops unless you know what you're doing (and you've got no work to lose if it crashes )

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I created a mostly infinite loop when programming my TI-83. USed a randomizer. little did i know that it only went up to about 3, tops. tried to run a problem with a solution of 9 or something. Luckily, the TI-83s will shut down a program if it doesn't complete in a set amount of time.

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Eh, are you sure about that? I've run an infinant loop for a pretty long time on an 83 before...

Anyway, if you ever get stuck in a loop you know you can press the on button to break the running process, right?

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Can't you just ctrl+break? That's what I use in Visual Basic. I hate while loops. Do everything I can to avoid them.



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No, i didn't know that. I'll have to remember that, although i've never made a loop again. Also, mine gaev me some fort of memory error when i ran that program. i figured it jsut repeated so much it filled out the memory of soemthing.

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I was programming Patch Enforcer for mIRC and I accidently put in an infinite loop into the gob reader. The program kept looping through the same file over and over again. In mIRC, it locks up everything related to mIRC, then when you close it, it proceeds to lag up everything for a little while after.

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The only time I have infinite loops is if I'm lazy and I use break to get out of it. Other than that, sorry, I can't sympathize.

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No because I have something else that breaks before I get an infinite loop.

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If it overflowed, that means it was given a calculation with a result larger than what the calculator can process... otherwise, yeah it could have run out of RAM I suppose but that usually takes a while for me :x I guess it depends on how much you have stored on the calculator, too... plus I did have this one dots game I made once... used to eat up TI ram like mad for some reason

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.. I forgot they even existed .. bah ..

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'Step-into' in VB is fantastic, makes debugging so much easier.

Every programming book that I've ever read specifically states what to do if you find yourself caught in an endless loop, before you even start coding loops.

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Typically if you press the pause/break key or ctrl + (hotkey) or F8 it will take you out of your code and take you to a debugger mode. The hotkey itself is diffrent for every compiler but typically you can enter debug mode and that will abort the corrupt lines of code.

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Because of habit, I look over my loops before I compile the code and execute it, so I rarely face a problem them. But honestly, while loops are one of the easier problems to deal with when programming in a language like C++.

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The only time I ever get infinite loops if I get silly and forget to include
i = i + 1;
or something.

Well, i ahve a ton of stuff on my calc, around 25 programs, every single one my own creation. So, yah. it probably overflowed. my program i was running wasn't that large, its was jsut a test program for that string, but it did run for a rather long time (20 seconds at least)

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Usually it is impossible to have a infinite loop with a for-loop but I think if you code something like this:

for(i=0; i<2; i++)
{
i = 0;
}

...it would NEVER which the condition to end so it would loop forever until the program crashes/freezes, halts, or runs out of memory.

-- SavageX

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