> Another liberal (bad!) interpretation of the docs > > continue > If you are within any kind of loop (For, for each, While, Repeat), the > continue keyword (used on a line by itself ) will transfer execution directly > to the top of the loop. The loop variable in a For loop will be incremented > according to the For clause. If you use continue outside of a loop it will > generate an error. > > It does not say it will do a "next recored([table])" in a "while (not(end > selection([table])))" loop, just a for loop
I may *seem* to work magic at times, but you will have to forgive me for not being able to magically determine your intention to do a next record() in this case. My psychic powers must have been below par when I wrote the continue command. ;) I really killed myself to be as precise as possible in the documentation. If I specifically mention certain behaviors, those are the *only* behaviors you can expect. The fact that I do *not* explicitly mention other behaviors explicitly means that you cannot expect other behaviors. Some people have criticized me for this, but if you think about it that is the only thing that makes sense. Otherwise the documentation would have to be something like this: continue If you are within any kind of loop (For, for each, While, Repeat), the continue keyword (used on a line by itself ) will transfer execution directly to the top of the loop. The loop variable in a For loop will be incremented according to the For clause. continue will NOT do the following: - Erase your data file. - Make coffee for you. - Initialize all variables in the application to zero. - Anything else you can imagine. Having said that, there is one behavior of the continue command which I forgot to explicitly document (which I am now fixing). In addition to incrementing a for loop, continue will also increment a for each loop. In general, if you want to loop through a selection, instead of using the standard while (not(end selection([table]))) mantra, you can just do this: for each ([table]) // whatever end for each The next record() is done for you. And if you use continue within that loop, when it jumps to the top of the loop the next record is fetched. Kind regards, Aparajita www.aparajitaworld.com "If you dare to fail, you are bound to succeed." - Sri Chinmoy | www.srichinmoy.org _______________________________________________ Active4D-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/mailman/listinfo/active4d-dev Archives: http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/archive/active4d-dev/
