RE: RPG & recursive call

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Lazarus [SMTP:mlazarus@ttec.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 1998 3:31 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      RE: RPG & recursive call
> 
> 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
> 
        [And Brad Said:]  That ain't recursion.  Recursion is a procedure
calling itself. 
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