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world.loop_checks = 0 in BYOND Discussion

ID:137220 Jan 19 2002, 12:12 am
Awakening	While turning world.loop_checks off seems to be necessary for my game, do you think infinite loops could result in a more graceful end that simply crashing everything?

#1 Jan 19 2002, 12:31 am
Dreq	One would think that turning off loop checks would tell the game to not worry about loops, therefore if a loop does run indefinatly, it's not going to handle it, because you turned loop checking off, and one would think that... (back to the beginning :D)

#2 Jan 19 2002, 12:33 am

Nadrew

Just put a one second delay before you start the loop again it saves alot of errors, here's an example:

mob/proc/Test()
    src<<"Test!"
    spawn(10)Test()

mob/New()
    Test()

#3 Jan 19 2002, 11:31 am

Deadron

Awakening wrote:

While turning world.loop_checks off seems to be necessary for my game, do you think infinite loops could result in a more graceful end that simply crashing everything?

No, because infinite loops are bad bad bad! You should find some way to avoid it...

In the military there is a concept of "catastrophic failure". That is, they want to know that in certain systems a bug will cause everything to fail completely, because they want to be sure that a bug doesn't go unnoticed.

Say, for example, a missile is going off course...

#4 Jan 19 2002, 6:24 pm In response to Deadron (#3)
Lord of Water	So, according to catastrophic failure: if the computerized lighting system fails for a half second due to a large stream of data input, the helicopter crashes!

#5 Jan 19 2002, 10:42 pm In response to Lord of Water (#4)
Deadron	Lord of Water wrote: So, according to catastrophic failure: if the computerized lighting system fails for a half second due to a large stream of data input, the helicopter crashes! If you want to ensure that a bug in the lighting system never goes unnoticed, that's a good way to do it!