The Whileopt option came out in version 4.something about 10 years ago. I have written thousands of lines of code in several different applications since then, and I can only remember needing to turn it on once.
The rare situation where you want to turn it on is if you have an application where you have a lot of calculations inside of a while loop, and I don't mean lot's of data access statements, but complex mathematical calculations. In this situation it will speed up the mathematical computations. It does nothing for the speed of retrieving data out of a table. Troy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis McGrath Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 10:44 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Crash City Karen, Great advice! WHILEOPT is great when you need it. It sucks otherwise. I run with WHILEOPT OFF unless I absolutely need it on, which is almost never. Dennis McGrath --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Marc: > > My first question: do you have WHILEOPT OFF? > > If not, do it now. Put it in your start up file. If whileopt is set > ON > (which > is the default), your programs will randomly start crashing if you > haven't > followed the exact programming requirements (such as when you can > clear and define variables), and it never crashes where the errors on > -- > it will be somewhere down the road as memory loads up. > > Karen >
