From:	Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: Recursions and Static declarations....?Is this wrong...
Date:	19 Jul 2002 10:48:00 GMT
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In comp.os.msdos.djgpp kers AT hplb DOT hpl DOT hp DOT com wrote:
> In article <ah8k0q$lqv$1 AT nets3 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>,
> 	Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> writes:
>> 
>> No, you can't.  At least not sensibly, in the way you did it.  You
>> shouldn't be recursing for this, in the first place, nor should you
>> ever use static variables to keep state across a recursion call.

> Not even for such things as recording recursion depth for prettyprinting?

Not in a useful way, if the static is local to the recursive function.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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