Re: Why Return[] does not work?
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- Subject: [mg109465] Re: Why Return[] does not work?
- From: dh <dh at metrohm.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:59:58 -0400 (EDT)
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On 27.04.2010 13:41, Dims wrote:
> I wrote a function to check if two lists contain equal members:
>
> Intersects[x_List,
> y_List] := (Do[(Print["Outer step ", xi];
> Do[(Print[xi, yi];
> If[xi == yi, (Print["Returning True"]; Return[True])]), {yi,
> y}]), {xi, x}]; False)
>
> But it returns False for interecting lists:
>
> In[47]:= Intersects[{a, b}, {c, a}]
> During evaluation of In[47]:= Outer step a
> During evaluation of In[47]:= ac
> During evaluation of In[47]:= aa
> During evaluation of In[47]:= Returning True
> During evaluation of In[47]:= Outer step b
> During evaluation of In[47]:= bc
> During evaluation of In[47]:= ba
> Out[47]= False
>
> Few questions:
>
> 1) why does not Return[] interrupt the loops?
> 2) is there better way to implement intersection check?
>
> Thanks
>
Hi,
Return does only return a single level . In your case only the inner Do
loop is left. Use Throw and Catch to control how many levels to jump up.
In general, try to avoid Return.
Daniel
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