Re: Help. Procedure is undefined

[davidf@mks.com (David J. Fiander)]

reply-address-in-sig (Steve Garriga) writes:
> 
> From a glance at your code it seems that you don't understand control
> flow. When a procedure or function is called, control is passed with
> the intention that control is passed back when the procedure or
> function completes. 
> 
> So.... what you need if I understand your intention, is a loop in your
> main procedure which is terminated by selecting quit, and your other
> procedures to just 'return' (i.e. don't attempt to call main, just
> complete).

Infering backwards from your response, the other possibility is
that he's Scheme or Lisp programmer who thinks that the correct
way to implement a looping construct is via tail-recursive
function calls.  In Scheme, the pair of functions

	(define a (x) (printf "%d\n" x) (b x))

	(define b (x) (a (+ 1 x)))

will count forever, without ever blowing the stack (ignoring the
lack of a real "printf" function, of course).

- David