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Subject: Re: Recursions and Static declarations....?Is this wrong...
Date: 19 Jul 2002 10:22:19 GMT
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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?

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