Questions tagged [loops]
A **loop** is a sequence of statements which is specified once but which may be carried out several times in succession.
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What does the English word "for" exactly mean in "for" loops?
English is not my first language, but since the keywords in programming languages are English words, I usually find it easy to read source code as English sentences:
if (x > 10) f(); => "If ...
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At what point is it taboo to have loops within loops?
Just curious. The most I have ever had was a for loop within a for loop, because after reading this from Linus Torvalds:
Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters.
There ...
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Calling recursive method in a loop - Backtracking
I'm confused about a matter that I've been unable to figure out. I'm doing some leetcode problems. In backtracking problems, sometimes we use loop within our recursive method to call the recursion but ...
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Should I separate special cases from for loop deliberately, or let a for loop handles special cases naturally?
Suppose I need to find the last selected index of options according to last selected contents, eg: options : A,B,C,D,E ,last selected option: C, so the last selected index is 2.
There is a special ...
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Is doing an assignment inside a condition considered a code smell?
Many times I have to write a loop that requires initialization of a loop condition, and an update every time the loop executes. Here's one example:
List<String> currentStrings = ...
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Reducing cyclomatic complexity of a state machine
I have a function (written in Python) that processes a loosely structured log file.
The log file would have begin-end markers for different sections, with each section describing different things (e.g....
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Does it make a difference if I declare variables inside or outside a loop in Java?
Does it make a difference if I declare variables inside or outside a loop in Java?
Is this
for(int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
int temp = doSomething();
someMethod(temp);
}
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Declarative name for function with multi-purpose-loop from broken-up monolithic function [closed]
I'm currently in the process of reworking a monolithic function.
My first step is finding blocks of code that can be extracted into their own "sub"-methods for ease of readability & ...
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Using the word "loop" as a subject in a sentence [closed]
I would like to explain the following code to my colleagues:
for options in [{Option.NO_CUTOFFS}, {}, {Option.HEURISTIC}]:
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The following sentence is kind of awkward:
This loop loops on the ...
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How to write correct loops?
Most of time while writing loops I usually write wrong boundary conditions(eg: wrong outcome) or my assumptions about loop terminations are wrong(eg: infinitely running loop). Although I got my ...
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Loop pattern for batch data processing
When processing data sets in batches I usually can think of the following three implementations.
Which one do you consider better than the other and why?
Notes:
The implementation is in C# but the ...
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Make infinite loop handleable via delay?
I have a Node.js micro-service architecture-based back-end. Services communicate with each other via PubSub. E.g. upon a request to service A, service A messages either service B or service C via ...
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Loading chunks around center
I am making a voxel game like Minecraft. I am able to load chunks using multithreading with the code...
for (int x = 0; x < WorldSettings.WORLD_WIDTH_IN_CHUNKS; x++)
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for (int y = 0; y < ...
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Separation of data retrieval and processing in loops?
Often I need to get some data and process it in some way. For example getting a list of customers from an API and assemble some summary data on them. As an example, getting :
api_result = api.request(...
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Should <= and >= be avoided when using integers, such as in a For loop? [closed]
I have explained to my students that equal-to testing is not reliable for float variables, but is fine for integers. The textbook I am using said that it is easier to read > and < than >= and <=....
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