[Gretl-devel] is loop_maxiter really honored?

[Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti]

On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> I'm not complaining when gretl is tolerant, but I'm really wondering why the 
> following script works in the sense that all 20 loop iterations are 
> performed, when I thought it should be interrupted after 10:
>
> set loop_maxiter 10
> i=1
> loop 20
>  print i
>  i = i+1
> end loop

It only applies to "while" loops. It's used to forcibly break 
potentially infinite loops. Actually, "help set" could be a little more 
explicit on this.

Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche

r.lucchetti at univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti