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Re: Help with Iteration

Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
Aaron Brady <cast...pigmail.comwrote:
>while 1:
calculate_stuff( )
if stuff < 0.00005:
break

The thought police will come and get you.

You are doing things by "side effect"!
You are using a global called "stuff"!
You are relying on an implementation
detail!

While their cudgels are bouncing off
your skull, they will scream the above three
lines into your swiftly swelling ears!

I suggest you write;

while True:
stuff = calculate_stuff()
if stuff < 0.00005:
break

quickly, to avoid the pain!

It may be too late though - even the
above sanitised version is still too
tightly coupled - how must
calculate_stuff know where to find
the inputs for its calculation?

You are gonna bleed!

:-)
Indeed I fear Mr. Brady must expect a visit from the PSU. This highly
secretive organization is known to attack anyone who
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