Odd idea...

[thegrogen]

I had the most bizarre idea the other day...

What if you made a program's main loop a recursive function? If you did, then you wouldn't have to worry about loop structures or anything of the sort.

Of course, there's probably quite a few problems with this (I tried it in FB with SUBs, and it crashed after a few seconds- probably some stack thing), but think about how much simpler main loops would be if we used recursive functions for them!

Just a thought.

[Agamemnus]

you could always just do a GOTO with a label.

[marzecTM]

you both are funny, thegrogen you might want to have a look into functional languages (ml, haskell )

[anarky]

I did that in DOS with a GUI I was playing with. It does work, however it gets unstable and choppy. I had mouse and keyboard commands everywhere because otherwise the main functions would take too long and control would not be practical.

My internet connection is so slow at the moment, I typed this in before IE could display the ASCII characters on the screen properly. Heh. Damn phone line noise.

>anarky

[thegrogen]

You need to get broadband... It's apparently cheaper than dial-up in some places.

[anarky]

It's coming. 39 days from the time of posting. :bounce: Broadband is not cheaper than dialup by far - not here anyway. Taking into account the average usage and call costs, which are all fixed rate local call connections from anywhere in the country.

>anarky