Re: Recursive Call

"Chuck Stevens" <charles.stevens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Note that within COBOL that is compliant with the three most recent
> standards, both direct and indirect recursion is prohibited. If an
> implementor allows it (or provides additional syntax to support it), it's
> an extension and it does whatever the implementor says it does.

Why in the world would recursion be forbidden? I haven't used it often in
COBOL, but I did find it extremely useful in writing a parts explosion
module once. The code, which was pretty elegant, would have been somewhat
tacky without recursion.
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