Executing Operations : EachTime

EachTime has one default input, and can be added a number of optional inputs. Each input calls upstream boxes, so that several tasks can be performed at each step of the iteration.

Even if an EachTime evaluator is used, the result of Finally alone is displayed by the Listener. Yet, EachTime plays a very important part in an iteration, since it is the only means to evaluate and keep track of the results yielded at each step of the program. This is one of the main specificities and interests of OMLoop.

The results of the operations called by EachTime can actually be displayed and returned to other boxes, inside and outside the OMLoop module . For instance, these results can be collected and returned to Finally with accumulators, or displayed by the Listener with a print box.

To check what happens during the iteraion, a print box is evaluated at each step. 

1. When listloop returns an item in the (A B C D) list, EachTime evaluates print.

2. The current value of listloop is printed.

3. At the end of the list, finally returns the last value of listloop.

The results of each loop of the iteration can be gathered in a list and returned to other boxes outside the module with collect , an accumulator.

Collect stores the results of each loop in a list.

1. At each step, EachTime calls :

   • print, which print the item returned by listloop
   • collect, which stores a new value.

2. At the end, Finally gets all the collected values and returns them as the result of the OMLoop.

Note  : the editable-text-box displays the value of the OMLoop output.