Aborting a Flat Sequence

[jSoft]

Hi everyone, I'm J.R., the programmer from rookie team 4918. I wanted to know if it's possible to abort a flat sequence mid-execution in labview. Thanks for the help!

[plnyyanks]

No, there is generally not a good way to stop a structure mid-execution. If you find the the pressing need to do this, it may be better to implement your code as a state machine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_machine) instead. This way, you can manually change the states yourself.

[Greg McKaskle]

Aborting or jumping out of structures in procedural languages is convenient, but tends to cause bugs caused by uninitialized variables. In a data flow language, that is even less of a good idea. So the structures are required to identify a value for all ways to exit. The exit is generally quite controlled., no break or continue statements except. The solution is to make the downstream code be conditional.

Greg McKaskle