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- From: gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
- Subject: Re: question about /ON
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.182901.24485@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia
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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 18:29:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep15.180231.13423@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> a8jb@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (G. Youssef EE) writes:
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- >To prevent infinite loops within your script. A solution is to use this:
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- Whether or not that is a solution depends on what you're trying to
- solve -- if you want to create infinite loops, you've got a great
- solution.
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- The real solution is to send NOTICEs when you're reacting to a
- message, and to do nothing to react to a NOTICE. Then you can't even
- get into complex ping-pong infinite loops.
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