Michael Kann wrote/ schreef: > <snip> > Recursion is one of those items like the ASCII chart > that for some reason must be in all programming books. > For what most of us are doing here it really is > unnecessary and can cause problems. I disagree; what is a more elegant handler to calculate 7!, faculty(7)?
function faculty v if v is 1 then return 1 else return v*faculty(v-1) end faculty Or to make a list of all files (also in subfolders) in a specific folder? function deepFiles startDir set the cursor to busy if it is "Cancel" then exit to top set the directory to startDir local tFiles repeat for each line tFile in the files put startDir & "/" & tFile into line (the number of lines in tFiles + 1) of tFiles end repeat repeat for each line tDir in line 2 to -1 of the directories put deepFiles(startDir & "/" & tDir) into line (the number of lines in tFiles + 1) of tFiles set the directory to startDir end repeat return tFiles end deepFiles Or to repeat a string (just elegant): function repeatstring rChunk,rTimes if rTimes is 1 then return rChunk else return rChunk & repeatString(rChunk,rTImes-1) end repeatstring I think, if one really thinks structured, it's possible to make things much simpler with recurred functions. > <snip> > Good luck, Mike Regards, / Groeten, Sjoerd _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard