Suggestion: looping

[Vetrijar]

are there any plans to have a FOR-LOOP created?  It would be useful
to have this in assisting us from making those infinite loop goofs with WHILEs.

Couldn't find a forum message on this yet, so wanted to post it.
This would REALLY be useful.

[Gilbert]

For loops were "removed" when CJ got to write his own text script engine, I think it's of very low priority to add it back. Anyway, you don't really need this, as you can do this thingie with while() already (though using for-loops may be more readible sometimes), eg.

int i=1;
while (i<=20){
  //blah bla bla
  i++;
}

[Radiant]

However what about 'break'?
(yea, I know, goto considered harmful considered harmful. But still)

I like the infinite loop breaker feature, as I tend to forget my i++'s in a while.

[Pizzaman]

Ya speaking of infinite loops, uh how do you remove that detection thing?

Cuz I am trying to have a while loop which has the enemy attack you and there is a random number generated to see if he will succeed or not, and i set it to do a random seed every second.  And I also have character push a button to attack back when he wishes.  But if there is no activity for even a second, the game crashes with an error about infinite loop.  Although its not an infinite loop, its quite "controlled."  Great a Turing Machine Problem.

-Pizzaman

[strazer]

Please don't cross-post.

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