Interesting language

This entry was published on Sunday, December 7, 2008
Programming

Cache’ Object Script is an interesting language. Take a look at the following two loops

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test
	s done=0
	f ln=1:1:10 d  q:done
	. w !,ln
	. i ln=5 s done=1
	w !,"ln after loop "_ln
	q
test2
	s done=0
	f ln=1:1:10 q:done  d
	. w !,ln
	. i ln=5 s done=1
	w !,"ln after loop "_ln
	q

The goal is stop after five iterations and then use the ending index to do something more. Executing the above code results in…

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PLAY>d test

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ln after loop 5
PLAY>d test2

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ln after loop 6
PLAY>

Can you spot the difference?

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