Re: MXLOOPS not implemented?

[John Darrington]

I think Frans deliberately made this endless loop in order
to demonstrate the (mis)behaviour of MXLOOPS.

J'

On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 10:07:42AM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
     shouldn't it be 'compute i = i+1' ? In the current version you constantly 
assign i a value of 1
     each loop cycle - looks like a classical endless loop to me...
     best,
     Rai
     
     
     
     On 6 Nov 2019 at 9:15, Ben Pfaff wrote:
     
     > On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 9:08 AM Frans Houweling <address@hidden>
     > wrote:
     > > this syntax:
     > >
     > >     PSPP> LOOP.
     > >     PSPP> + COMPUTE i = 1.
     > >     PSPP> END LOOP IF i GT 1.
     > >     PSPP> EXECUTE.
     > >
     > > makes my session hang forever.
     >
     > It looks like a bug because I misunderstood the requirements. I
     > thought that if
     > an IF clause was specified then MXLOOPS should not apply, but this
     > appears
     > to be wrong.
     >
     
     
     

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