RE: RE: RPG & recursive call

Programmatically it is defined the same way too.  I use recursion, although
rarely, in some applications.  For instance printing out an indented bill of
materials where the processing has to run through a "splay tree" type of
structure.  I also use it on our Local HTML based newsgroups to dipslay
messages and indent responses.  They are all subprocedures, though.

I find it kind of strange when the definition for something like recursion
is different, or thought of as such, in the "as/400 world" than the
definition for the same in in the "non-as/400 world".

Bradley V. Stone
Taylor Corporation - OASIS Programmer/Analyst   
bvstone@taylorcorp.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Morris [SMTP:dmorris@plumcreek.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 12, 1998 2:08 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: RE: RPG & recursive call
> 
> Brad,
> 
> I think you are technically correct on the meaning of recursion,
> especially when 
> related to a mathematical expression.  I think the term is used
> differently in 
> programming.  If it were not, recursion would be very rare... do you
> really call 
> another program directly?.  It looks like IBM's definition is the same as
> Mark's on 
> the AS/400 based on the description found in message RPG8888.
> 
> David Morris
> 
> >>> "Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@taylorcorp.com> 11/12 7:28 AM >>>
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 
> >  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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