On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 11:39:12 -0300 "marcelo.bp" <marcelo...@netsite.com.br> wrote:
> Thanks William, > > You clarified my doubt. > > About the context, if you didn´t read the other posts on this subject, we > were discussing the terminology for this kind > of reference errors. Lazarus adopted the word “cycle” where Delphi, like in > your example, used “circular”. I think Mattias > already reviewed this. In portuguese i will maintain what i used before that > is “referência circular”. > > About the term “endless loop”, i think “infinite loop” is more common in > “programmer´s language” :) Although i can live > with the term “endless loop”. Infinite loop is a more mathematical term. Since some people find the basics of computer science too special, I chose the word with the broader meaning: endless. And as someone already pointed out: the first hit for endless loop is infinite loop. >[...] > About the graph theory, can anyone point me a document or link? Just want > to take a look. Wikipedia has a lot of graph theory. Or just google for backtracking, cycle detection, depth first search, shortest/longest path algorithms. Any good programmer should know these basic algorithms. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus