RE: RPG & recursive call

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Al Barsa, Jr. [SMTP:barsa2@ibm.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 10:40 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: RPG & recursive call
> 
> At 03:46 PM 11/9/98 +1100, you wrote:
> >At first sorry for my poor english, I am located in French Polynesia
> ....
> >
> >Is it possible to do a recursive call in an RPG III program ? If I
> try to do
> >that by a simple CALL I have the message RPG8888.
> >
> Some languages (CL) support recursion, but RPG and COBOL do not.  You
> can
> do a recursive call from a RPG program, but the call cannot be to
> another
> RPG program in the call stack.
> 
        [And Brad Said:]  Al, would this be considered recursion?  Just
wondering... A recursive call would call itself, which would inherintly
say that the program would already be in the call stack, correct?  So,
how can an RPG/III program make a recursive call?  ;)

> Hope this helps.
> 
> Al
> 
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