A better way then QUIT?

[S_Grimm]

Alright. I know that there must be a better way to exit a Turing Program than "quit", but I don't know it. Can anyone else perhaps, inform me what it is? (If I'm not crazy and a way does exist.)

[Clayton]

Have no more code to run. So exit your main loop such that there is no more code to run afterward.

[petree08]

Window.Close (WinID) - F9 it

[Tony]

petree08 @ Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:08 pm wrote:

Window.Close (WinID) - F9 it

that's a better way to exit the program, how?

[Sean]

Window.Close just closes the created window and cancles, however I doubt that is what they wanted.

[darkangel]

code:

return

also works, it stops the program dead in its tracks.

[Sean]

Or if it is in a loop, and something happens use

code:

exit

[syntax_error]

I truly detest the teaching of exit as the only way to get out of a loop, the best way taht should be taught is meeting the condition of the loop. no?

[S_Grimm]

Sorry, I should have been more specific. The code goes something like this:

CODE

if (i = "yes") then
QUESTIONS %Procedure that has been predefined%%%
end if
if (i = "no") then
quit ************* This is the part I want to change
end if

END CODE

ther are about 2 loops ahead of this statement, and exit didn't work (i tried)

[Clayton]

syntax_error @ Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:34 pm wrote:

I truly detest the teaching of exit as the only way to get out of a loop, the best way taht should be taught is meeting the condition of the loop. no?

Ummm... Let's say you have some condition that you need to obtain in a loop for exit:

code:

loop     exit when [condition] end loop

This is fine. But what if some form of computation needs to occur after that condition is true? Our code would now look like this:

code:

loop     if [condition] then         <computation>         exit     end if end loop

In fact, the first code block is just syntactical sugar for:

code:

if [condition] then     exit end if

So what's the problem?

[petree08]

what i mean by Window.Close is that after the program is done it closes the window.

I figured he wanted to know how to get the program to close the wnidow after the program.

[S_Grimm]

I need to complete close the program if the answer is wrong. if it is right, the program goes on.

[Prince Pwn]

I don't have Turing with me but I know what you mean. It goes something like this:

% instead of View.Set at the top of your program, do:
var winID := Window.Open("graphics;400:500")

% at the bottom
Window.Close(winID)

If you compile your program into an exe, you can check a box to "close program when finished".

I know you can get it to close somehow, I did it before. If none of that works then keep trying something like that.

[Sean]

He never once ment closing a window. As said before, he needs to exit or return as one of his conditions.

If your code is in a loop, which it should be then:

Turing:

if i = "Yes" or i = "yes" then      %Code else      exit end if

[S_Grimm]

Yes it's in a loop. nestled within a loop so it's like this

code:

loop %More code above this     get answer loop if answer = "yes" or answer = "Yes then exit elsif answer = "no" or answer = "No" then        quit  %I need to change this elsif answer not= "Yes" or answer not= "yes" or answer not= "no" or answer not= "No" then put "Incorect input. Please Re-Enter : ".. get answer end loop %more code end loop

My problem is the second loop, the one for the entire program. "exit" will only exit the second loop, not the first loop. I need a way to exit BOTH loops at once.