Adding through recursion

[Peter Tillotson]

basically the other two points :-)

you create a string of add functions

add(2,4)--add(1,5)--add(0,6)

only in the last ( add(0,6) ) explicitly returns y, in the else of 
add(1,5) you ignor it. If you want the starting add to return something 
sensible you need to find a way to pass it back up the function chain.

not tested
  def add(x, y):
     if x == 0:
         sum = y
	print sum
     else:
         x -= 1
         y += 1
       	sum = add(x, y)
     return sum

print add(2, 4)

martin.clausen at gmail.com wrote:
> There is problaly a really simple answer to this, but why does this
> function print the correct result but return "None":
> 
> def add(x, y):
>     if x == 0:
>         print y
>         return y
>     else:
>         x -= 1
>         y += 1
>         add(x, y)
> 
> print add(2, 4)
> 
> result:
> 6
> None
> 
> Martin
>