Re: [BLACKBOX] Still kicking the BlackBox tires. A question for the group about annoyances.

From: [at]} <Bob>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:56:08 -0000

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> From: BlackBox [mailto:BLACKBOX{([at]})nowhere.xy
> Sometimes I write code like
>
> k := 0
> WHILE k <= kMax DO
> Process (k);
> INC (k)
> END;
>
> Sometimes, however, I forget the INC and get caught in an infinite
> loop, [...]
>
> But I don't have a solution (maybe I was asleep and missed a good
> one?).

I have long been in the habit of always writing the INC (or Read, or
whatever in some other language) before writing anything else in the body of
the loop. Once bitten, twice shy.

I was taught to program in COBOL using the Jackson Structured Programming
method and I made a point of writing the control structures and reads before
I wrote any of the body of the code so that I could be sure of reading the
files successfully, which made it much easier to debug because I wasn't
getting my brain tangled up in all the other stuff.

Bob

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