Oh, I see. yes, that looks like a bug. You mean, it should only report one

"recursion finished at level..."

Now I get it.



On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Rolf Huehne <rhue...@fli-leibniz.de> wrote:

> On 05/12/2015 04:36 PM, Robert Hanson wrote:
> > Hmm, this looks good to me:
> >
> >
> > show functions
> > /*
> >   * rectest
> >   */
> > function rectest (level){
> >
> >     print "level="+ level +" maxLevel=" + maxLevel + "\n";
> >     if (level < maxLevel) {
> >       print "recursing at level " + level+"\n";
> >       recTest(level + 1);
> >     } else {
> >       print "recursion finished at level " + level+"\n";
> >     }
> > }
> >
> > recTest(1)
> >
> >
> > level=1 maxLevel=5
> >
> > recursing at level 1
> >
> > level=2 maxLevel=5
> >
> > recursing at level 2
> >
> > level=3 maxLevel=5
> >
> > recursing at level 3
> >
> > level=4 maxLevel=5
> >
> > recursing at level 4
> >
> > level=5 maxLevel=5
> >
> > recursion finished at level 5
> >
> > recursion finished at level 4
> >
> > recursion finished at level 3
> >
> > recursion finished at level 2
> >
> > recursion finished at level 1
> >
> Bob, why does it look good to you?
>
> It is ok that the 'rectest' function is called again four times.
> But the 'else' branch should only be executed when level=maxlevel. And
> this should be the case only in the last 'rectest' call. Otherwise both
> branches of the 'if...else' would have been followed, which should never
> happen.
>
> Regards,
> Rolf
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