OpenEuphoria

Re: Newcomer with a problem

• Posted by "Graeme." <hmi at POWERUP.COM.AU> Jan 26, 1998
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At 01:50 25/01/98 +0000, David B. Williams wrote

>Hello, everyone.  I'm new to Euphoria, and have been having a problem
>that I can't seem to find the answer to in the documentation.  It's
>probably there, I'm just horrible at finding things like that.
>
>I'm wondering about function and procedure declaration.  Currently,
>I've got a function and a procedure.  They both call the other at one
>point in their block, but because one appears before the other, the
>interpreter says the second one is undefined (and therefore will not
>continue running the program).
>

Unfortunately mutual recursion is not allowed in euphoria.
A routine may call itself but not another routine that calls it.

Graeme.