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Thread: Convert this to non-recursive

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    Cool Convert this to non-recursive

    public static int f(int a, int b)
        {
            Z.h1(a, b);           //// arbitrary code
     
            if (Z.h2(a, b))
                return Z.h3(a, b);
     
            else
            {
                Z.h4(a, b);        ////arbitrary code
                return f(Z.h5(a, b), Z.h6(a, b));      //// recursive call
            }
        }

    -h1 and h4 --------------------> void functions
    -h2 ------------------------------> boolean function
    -h3, h5 and h6 -------------->return int
    -h1 ... h6-----------------------> will not call f

    My Attempt to convert the code above to non-recursive:

     
    public static int f(int a, int b)
    {
        while(true)
        {
            Z.h1(a, b); //// arbitrary code
     
            if (Z.h2(a, b)) //// base case
            return Z.h3(a, b);
            else
            {
                Z.h4(a, b); /////arbitrary code
     
                int temp = Z.h5(a, b);
                b = Z.h6(a, b));
                a=temp;
             }
        }
    }

    I'm not sure if I'm right.
    Any ideas?
    Last edited by IAmHere; June 9th, 2011 at 08:55 PM.


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    Default Re: Convert this to non-recursive

    It looks fine to me. Did you test it out to make sure the outputs match up?

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