endless loop repeating function's value

[konstantinos Vasilakos]

Hi all, 


I was playing with some code this morning, and came across something accidentally peculiar, or at least something I wasn’t aware of in SC. If I execute this:


x = {
var name = [“K", "M", "N"].choose;
("hello " ++ name).postln;
x.value
};


x.value


It will start an endless loop of evaluating this function, is there any viable explanation to that?


— —
SC 3.7alpha | MacOS 10.9

[FZ]

good morning,

i think if you do x.value, your funcition » x « is again evaluating » x.value « as a simple recursion.
you'll get stuck in a loop, because you haven't formulated a condition on which your function stops evaluating itself.

solution could be:

///////////////////////////
x = {
var name = {["K", "M", "N"].choose};
100.do{ // this is your condition now.
("hello " ++ name.()).postln;
}
};

x.value
/////////////////////////


hope it helps.
florian

Post by konstantinos Vasilakos
Hi all,
x = {
var name = [“K", "M", "N"].choose;
("hello " ++ name).postln;
x.value
};
x.value
It will start an endless loop of evaluating this function, is there any viable explanation to that?
— —
SC 3.7alpha | MacOS 10.9

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