At 03:32 PM 3/26/2013, Karen Tellef wrote:
When I think of While loops, I automatically think of cursors. So
I can easily see an instance of a program that has a cursor, and
the related while loop. And maybe within that code you have a
"run" command, and maybe that program has its own cursor or its
own totally different while loop. I can't answer if I personally
have any of that, but it certainly doesn't seem out of the question
for someone to do. So therefore my (and the other guy's) question
of whether the buffer would attempt to load ALL while loops. My
guess is that it would, and that would certainly mean you should
never have >1 while loop open at any time!
You asked me a question, and I gave you the straight answer.
When running a RUN command in a WHILE loop, and then running another
RUN command in a nested WHILE loop, will eventually return -ERROR- 218.
This buffer is limited to 64K of memory.
As I mentioned earlier ...
Personally, I have never seen such code, nor have encountered
such programming in my entire R:BASE life. I have designed and
implemented very complex R:BASE applications and none of them
include a RUN command in a WHILE loop nor a nested RUN command
in another WHILE loop.
Remember, there are more eloquent techniques to accomplish any
task (simple or complex) in R:BASE.
Very Best R:egards,
Razzak.
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