Feel so stupid... that was the problem, thanks.

On 2 Nov 2011, at 01:02, Don Guinn wrote:

> What are the values of r, c and m? But I think that the outer loop is being
> run a number of times but the inner loop doesn't execute after the first
> time through as c is never reset.
> 
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:54 PM, David Vaughan
> <[email protected]>wrote:
> 
>> I was just writing a function that has a nested while loop, but it seems
>> that the outer loop only executes once. I guess I must be missing something
>> here.
>> 
>> while. r<{.$m
>> do.
>>       while. c<{:$m
>>       do.
>>               m =. (((<r;c){m) + ((<r;c-1){m) <. ((<c;~r-1){m)) (<r;c) } m
>>               c =. >:c
>>       end.
>>       r =. >:r
>> end.
>> 
>> Is there anything about that to suggest why the outer loop would only
>> happen once?
>> 
>> I outputted 'r' at the end of the function and it returned 4 when the verb
>> was applied to i.4 4 (which is what you would expect it to be having
>> finished its loop).
>> 
>> Is there a way I can make my function output things part way through it?
>> So I could see if I just have a logic error somewhere (which I cannot see
>> but suspect is the issue) that causes the loop to appear to stop after the
>> first iteration.
>> 
>> Thanks.
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