[arcticmac]

Are we allowed to recurse in objective-c? that is, in the implementation of -(void)someMethod:(int)index; can I call [self someMethod:index+1];?

I need something like this for an app I'm writing, but it doesn't seem to work properly. I have a variable called dx (type is int) inside the method, and every time the debugger stops(in the middle of the method), I printed out a pointer to dx, and it was always the same...

What do I have to do to get recursion to work? define a function or something?

[parallax]

It'll be easier to debug if you paste your code here

[Thinine]

[self whateverMethod] should work just fine. Perhaps there's something weird with how you're interacting with the variables.

[arcticmac]

ah... problem was that I had an if(index=something-1) which was supposed to be index== instead, so it was setting index to the wrong thing, so it would think it was on the highest level of the loop when it wasn't.

Thanks anyway..

[Detrius]

Originally Posted by arcticmac

ah... problem was that I had an if(index=something-1) which was supposed to be index== instead, so it was setting index to the wrong thing, so it would think it was on the highest level of the loop when it wasn't.

Thanks anyway..

you could have avoided that frustration by using:

if (something-1 == index) // this would give an error in the compiler if you just used =

or

#define EQ ==
if (index EQ something-1)