Recursion in Hugo

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I had some code that was like this:

location DoUrinate
{
Perform(&DoUrinate, hole01)
}

hole01 was in the room. Basically, One of the Bruces typed >piss in hole

That caused the game to crash, as the above forms a loop. An endless loop!

This was meant to be a blog post, but I have a billion things to do before my brother's inexplicable wedding, not the least of which is using the word inexplicable in most posts.

Thanks, Bruce.

[Flack]

Maybe he just had to piss really bad!

Like, really, really, really bad.

Like ...

10 print "really, "
20 goto 10

... bad.

[Tdarcos]

I had some code that was like this:

location DoUrinate
{
Perform(&DoUrinate, hole01)
}

hole01 was in the room. Basically, One of the Bruces typed >piss in hole

That caused the game to crash, as the above forms a loop. An endless loop!

This was meant to be a blog post, but I have a billion things to do before my brother's inexplicable wedding, not the least of which is using the word inexplicable in most posts.

Thanks, Bruce.

Actually, you're lucky it's a subroutine call, this uses memory for the stack frame and makes the game (eventually) use all available memory. If it was a branch it would just hang.

[Tdarcos]

That caused the game to crash, as the above forms a loop. An endless loop!
Thanks, Bruce.

Actually, you're lucky it's a subroutine call, this uses memory for the stack frame and makes the game (eventually) use all available memory. If it was a branch it would just hang.

I have a method I use - I'm writing a cross-reference for Pascal Programs, something that has been really weak compared with what was available back on mainframe compilers - is a "trap code". Any place where something is happening, a global variable called TrapCode is set to 0 the first time it is entering an area. Every time it passes through the critical area, TrapCode is incremented. If it's not supposed to get more than, say, 5 or 6 loops I'll set the check on TrapCode so that if it reaches 50, it raises a flag that causes it to print a message and pause until ENTER is pressed, allowing me to see when a runaway program occurs.

[Tdarcos]

Maybe he just had to piss really bad!

Like, really, really, really bad.

Like ...

10 print "really, "
20 goto 10

... bad.

"I'd give a million dollars just to be able to take a piss without it hurting."
- Hyman Roth, The Godfather, Part 2