Re: [Tutor] More trouble debugging my game of life program

2007-06-04 Thread Matt Smith
On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 18:09 -0400, Brian van den Broek wrote: > The first thing I would do to try to track down the problem would be > to try 15x30 and 30x15 matrices. If you have two cases where one > behaves as expected and one does not, it is usually very useful to try > to match the two cas

Re: [Tutor] More trouble debugging my game of life program

2007-06-03 Thread Brian van den Broek
Matt Smith said unto the world upon 06/03/2007 04:12 PM: > Hi, > > I've got my program working correctly (or so it seems) with my original > data file (r-pentomino.txt - attached) but when I run it with a larger > (30*30) file (big-r-pentomino - also attached) in an attempt to make it > work with

[Tutor] More trouble debugging my game of life program

2007-06-03 Thread Matt Smith
Hi, I've got my program working correctly (or so it seems) with my original data file (r-pentomino.txt - attached) but when I run it with a larger (30*30) file (big-r-pentomino - also attached) in an attempt to make it work with out so many edge effects it returns the following error message: Tra