alternatives to making blocks like { } or other ??

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed May 19 21:03:48 EDT 2004


Grant Edwards wrote:
> (he didn't know what recursion was, since BASIC
> didn't have it)

That's not quite true. Recursive GOSUBs worked fine in
most versions of BASIC. There just weren't any local
variables or parameter passing, making recursion
somewhat awkward to use...

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg




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