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KDB How to cause infinite loop without recursion

Is there an expression that causes an infinite loop in KDB?

This is without using loops or recursion.

Solution

  • A statement including a scan or over adverb can get you stuck in an infinite loop. Something like:

    {sqrt x}\[{x>0};100]

    this will continually take the square root of the previous output (with an initial input of 100) until the answer no longer satisfies x>0. So the first argument is effectively a while, even though we don't use the while key word. Is this what you were looking for?