Re: static vars question

At 00:27 31.05.2003, Martin Helie said: --------------------[snip]-------------------- >yes, I am familiar with these concepts; I am just starting to experiment >with recursive functions and static variables. Thanks for explaining that >once the function is called and completed, the rest of the first call >continues executing normally. That is what surprised me. --------------------[snip]-------------------- Martin, then you should be surprised that message based systems work at all - stuff like XWin, and (yes ;->) even Windoze work exactly like this. Thanks heaven that language inventors allow functions to continue after they call others... Maybe you mixed this up with gotos, these never return. Thanks to Andi Gutman and Zeev Suraski that there's no goto in PHP *smile* -- >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger (\) ICQ #13394035 ^ http://www.vogelsinger.at/