RE: RPG & recursive call

[Mark Lazarus <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Brad,

At 01:12 PM 11/10/98 -0600, you wrote:

>> >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?  ;)

 If the call from the RPG program is to a CLP that is already in the stack.

 -mark

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