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seunthomas:
Not all functions return a value. some functions return void and in primitive languages void is not a type. I can write the program but i would be rubbing your already wounded ego. If i stop discussing with you right now i would be vindicated. Already trashed u in my own question, have the solution to your own challenge and even help confirm that a fellow programmer @guru01 got the right answer in the question you asked him, which by the way you did not know the answer of. What more do you want na?

airsaylongcon:
Seunthomas seunthomas seunthomas. Your level of reckless bravado is ridiculous. So are you saying you can write a recursive function that can terminate via stack overflow or out of memory and that function will return something (say void)?

If yes show me an example

seunthomas:
A recursive function can actually terminate without an exit path
a. scenerio out of memory (know this about java)
b. stack overflow( saw this online)

timtoday:
For all intent and purpose, why would one want to terminate a recursive function "allowing" stack overflow or scenario of out of memory? This has nothing to do with side taking.

Whether a function return a data type or not (in the case of void, though void is consider a data type in a way), that should not make a program "crash" as an exit path. Am sure that wouldn't be a good program at all, except you are probably showing a case that causes such. But if the purpose of the function or program is to solve a specific issue but instead crashes, I don't think that is acceptable.

seunthomas:
Thanks for your observation ohh. But the question asked if a recursive program could exit without an exit path and the answer is YES. those examples are just those that could come to mind, like i told that bros that likes to argue there are many scenerios and if we now put more programming languages into play i know some languages by design that dont even require a recursive function to have an exit loop.

seunthomas:
stop tempting me na. Is it compulsory i must indulge your folly?? If you promise to give me MTN recharge card of just 1500 to the email of my choice if am correct, i will answer it. if not maintain your peace.

airsaylongcon:
If in return you will give me MTN 400 if you are wrong and I am right then we have a deal

timtoday:
But the "thought" of such EXIT is horrifying to say the least. While on some system you could be "presented" with BSOD - blue screen of death. So, am sure that is why asking such question and giving an answer without explanation would raise some dust in so many corners and quarters.

seunthomas:
Deal....
Please note your question was not language specific and i just need to come up with a
recursive function that can actually terminate without an exit path?

Right??

airsaylongcon:
You are welcome to the thread.

@all I am currently stuck in my estate's residents association monthly meeting. I will come back to destroy seunthomas regarding the challenge I threw him. Hopefully he will send me my N400 recharge card

airsaylongcon:
Who is talking of the recursive question? I am talking of the struct question I gave you. But since you wanna write a recursive function then be my guest. Note that it must satisfy one of two criteria you mentioned; exit due to stack overflow or exit due to out of memory. Let's rumble

seunthomas:
Thats programming. Whats the point of writing code that wont run. If i did not run the code wont have seen all those mishots na. LOL

FincoApps:
Even with your great experience since the 80s ?

seunthomas:
Dont mind that guy bro. The question he asked you. Your answer was correct. i was stressed up with real worker else i could have seen it clearly. The guy no sabi anything at all. He just they rub him ego. LOL.

airsaylongcon:
A procedure "CallBack" is recursive for *some* inputs. If this procedure is guaranteed to terminate, then which of the following is not true.

a) CallBack has a local variable
b) CallBack has an path of execution where it is not recursive (doesn't call itself)
C) CallBack refers to a global variable or has one or more parameters

The name of the procedure (or function if you like) is CALLBACK.

This procedure is recursive if it gets certain values (eg 3 or 7 or 199 etc)
For other values it is not recursive.

Irrespective of whether it gets a value that makes it recursive or not recursive it WILL terminate.

Which of the options in A-C is not true given the above qualities of the procedure

dhtml18:
See now, he cannot even remember how to declare a struct anymore, that section of his memory has been overwritten. . .due to old age in programming.

var ProgYear, GitHub, Mouth, SThomas

SThomas = nairaland.GetProgrammerByChestBeating('SeunThomas' ) ;

if(ProgYear=="1998" && GitHub==" " ) {
   alert('Fake Programmer') ;
   SThomas.innerPROGFORUM= "This guy should be deleted" ;
} else {
   Mouth="Recursive Loop" ;
   alert(Mouth);
   SThomas.innerPROGFORUM = "His mouth is in recursive loop" ;
}

asalimpo:
This thread reminds me of a movie i watched recently.
Focus.

There's was a chronic gambler, that betted on everything.
If he were here watching this thread spin, I'm sure he'd have bet that the
the the thread will (or will not) hit n pages (n=10,20,21).

#To think that yesterday i was exclaiming that it had hit 8 pages!!

seunthomas:
You are just plain bitter. The fact that every statement you made about me has been wrong makes you angry. Kindly enlighten me how a person can create a program without running,compiling/interpreting it. It seems you have discovered something new. Ohh i forgot you have a php background and that makes you forget that when you go to the browser to check you code, you are actually running it.
Can you actually contribute anything here asides useless sarcasm.
LOl

seunthomas:
stop tempting me na. Is it compulsory i must indulge your folly?? If you promise to give me MTN recharge card of just 1500 to the email of my choice if am correct, i will answer it. if not maintain your peace.

FincoApps:
LoL, dude, have you noticed that I'm following you on NL ? That shows I'm not bitter at all. I'm following you because from time to time, you talk sense. And trust me, I don't care about being right about you.

Also stop assuming, I only started real PHP last year, I have conc Java background because I started programming when BlackBerry Java phones and Nokia S40 phones were still popular.

DanielTheGeek:
You must be a broke programmer too.

seunthomas:
I am ohhhh. I spent 2 days arguing with you instead of working....
If you refuse to learn today, then i give up na.
Dont get to 40 before u make that change(like they say a fool at 40 is.......)

DanielTheGeek:
Old man chill, I wasn't arguing with you for the past two days.. I have been at work, solving real programming problems. I only stop by on NL once in a while.

And before you drag me into your chest-beating propaganda let me make this clear, I may be quiet about the programming questions and answers on this thread, that doesn't make me a learner. I don't need to start saying what I have done self or my stack because you (started programming in 1998) have nothing to show from your past.

BTW, you must have had the 'fool at forty' experience already sir...thanks for sharing, I will definitely not be like you when I get to forty.

seunthomas:
From the way you have been talking. You are probably bros too me na. Mind you i started coding early courtesy of an uncle who gave a book on programming around 90's. I am not saying you are a fool ohhhh. But that you need to take care ohhh considering the way you have been talking so far. Me i no get point to prove na. Na you dey always try to prove point and God don shame you na. Initially we started out about if i was indeed a programmer. And frankly any right thinking follower of this thread will know beyond doubt that am not just a programmer but far superior to your mediocrity. Like you suggested, this was fun. We can still be friends even colleagues...

DanielTheGeek:
I understand your point which is valid, but still let us in on what you've done...
Okay forget github.
pastebin?, code snippets on codepaste.net, finished work anywhere? (Website, mobile app any one) or are you just a professor with the theoretical knowledge of programming alone?

seunthomas:
YES as you have said ohhh. Na you confer the professorate degree na.

DanielTheGeek:
Good, that's all I needed to know fellow programmer.
Now you and your boys can keep on battling, BTW I have had this mentality that Practical programmers are better than the theorists. (I may be wrong tho)

seunthomas:
Ok ohhh my brother with java background. If really you say you know java, do you know that an out of memory exception can cause an application to exit in an infinite loop? There are many scenerios that can make a recursive loop that does not have an exit function to terminate. Some languages by design are even implemented that way. I cant remember the language very well but i know one of this modern languages we use has that baked into it. That you dont know something does not mean other people are dumb or dull headed ohhhhh. Thanks for following me ohhhh. But try not to make it a habit of talking about things you dont know about. Its better to just watch and learn.

seunthomas:
YES as you have said ohhh. Na you confer the professorate degree na.

asalimpo:
18 years of programming what dyu have to show? That's the question.
What?
Stop beating round the bush.
You started this fight to challenge dhtml, not run up your mouth .
What have you done. How are you superior to your opponent, that's the koko. Not empty talk.

asalimpo:
We've been watching but we've not learnt anything.
You've only talked up 28 pages no code to show. Just talk.

seunthomas:
I have done far more than you and dhtml combined together. And yes you actually learnt a lot(even though you wont admit).
I dont beat around the bush either learn some manners and appreciate me.
I wish you luck, you dont have anything to contribute but criticism. You are not a programmer or have u shown us any proof that u have such skills. You are just a jobless tout on NL looking around for a fight.