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Calling a function from itself
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From
03/04/2006 07:50:41
Cetin Basoz
Engineerica Inc.
Izmir, Turkey
 
 
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31/03/2006 13:40:42
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01109601
Message ID:
01109900
Views:
16
>>Here is my code:
>>FUNCTION GenerateLawLabelBarcode
>>LPARAMETERS ...
>> .......
>> GenerateLawLabelBarcode(....)
>> return ....
>>ENDFUNC
>>
>>I have an error saying that a file "GenerateLawLabelBarcode" does not exist.
>>
>>Please, help.
>
>You can't do that! A function or procedure can't call itself.
>
>If you want to have it called repeatedly, you need to set up some sort of loop outside the function that calls it.
>
>Regards,

Jim,
As many already said you can do that, however you're right to a point, should you do that:) I tend not to create recursive functions if I can create one that's not recursive (and almost all the time I find a non-recursive one). IMHO recursive code is easier to write but is evil. With recursion you should be very carefull not to overflow stack space and/or nesting levels.
PS: Maybe a perception but looks like generally non-recursive code is faster.
Cetin
Çetin Basöz

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