Can a recursive function be contained within a non-recursive function?

[Decker87]

Hi everyone. I am new to this forum, but not new to AutoIT. I have written two functions which work together.

One of them, "Ben", is recursive and makes a call to itself. The other, "Jerry", is not recursive but does make a single call to Ben, among other things.

The problem I have is that for all intents and purposes, Jerry is all I need. He calls on Ben and returns the values I want. So is there a way to sort of "package" Ben inside of Jerry? So that I don't need to define both functions every time I use Jerry?

To summarize:

Func Ben(some parameters)
blah blah
Ben(some parameters)
EndFunc

Func Jerry(some parameters)
some code
more code
Ben(some parameters)
more code
return some value
EndFunc

[weaponx]

You could but it would get ugly. You would have to add a flag parameter to "Jerry" that triggers a Switch statement within the function.

Func Jerry($param1, $param2, $param3, $recurse)
If $resurse Then
Jerry($param1,$param2,$param3,TRUE)
Else
;Non-recursive stuff
EndIf
EndFunc

[Decker87]

Yes. I actually do have that as part of my code for Ben, which is why I created Jerry to envelope him - so that the end user doesn't see or know about the flag parameter.

[weaponx]

Yes. I actually do have that as part of my code for Ben, which is why I created Jerry to envelope him - so that the end user doesn't see or know about the flag parameter.

Maybe just set a global variable: Global $recurse = true

[crzftx]

A local variable would work fine.

code
code
Jerry(14,34)
code

Func Jerry($var1, $var2, $ben = False)
    If Not $ben Then
         Jerry's code
    Else
         Ben's code (which may or may not implement $var1 and $var2)
         Jerry(0, 0, True)
         When it's finally time to exit Ben, do your final stuff and return
    Endif
EndFunc