From: brahms AT mindspring DOT com (Stan Brown) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Iteration vs. Recursion... Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 10:20:46 -0400 Organization: Oak Road Systems Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <7n7s1h$ms6$1 AT autumn DOT news DOT rcn DOT net> <37978194 DOT 17661031 AT news DOT cso DOT uiuc DOT edu> <01bed879$332ecc60$9154f6cc AT symbology DOT symbology DOT com> <7ofett$niu$1 AT nnrp1 DOT deja DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cf.cd.bb.ca X-Server-Date: 7 Aug 1999 14:19:44 GMT X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.10 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com mike_powell AT my-deja DOT com (M. Powell) wrote in comp.os.msdos.programmer: >some compilers may choke on an excessive number of if..else >statements stacked upon one another. It is impossible to disprove that statement, since I am not familiar with every compiler in the world. But a moment's thought will show that it is unlikely to be true. if ... else if ... else if statements are not nested if's. A chain of a million of them is no more complex than a chain of two, and should provide no more difficulty to any compiler. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA http://www.mindspring.com/~brahms/ I don't need e-mail copies of posted follow-ups, but if you send them PLEASE identify them as such. My reply address is correct as is. The courtesy of providing a correct reply address is more important to me than time spent deleting spam.