hi I have a very big code file i won't bore you with
I will paraphrase what it does, and maybe you can help me figure out why its crashing/giving me an infinite loop

what it does is take a string and pick out the real/complex part if it is in rectangular form, or pick out the magnitude and angle if it is in polar form. What i want is if it is in polar form, i want to make the real/complex data represented in @constructed reflect the polar form of the rectangular data. So, really, in order to get this data, i'm trying to get constructComplex to call itself.
$x = "3 _ 4"; #in polar form.. 3 is mag and 4 is angle

sub constructComplex{

   my($value1, $real, $complex, $magnitude, $angle, @construct, @const
+ructPolar, $isinPolarForm, $isinRectForm);

   $value1 = $_[0];
   if($isinPolarForm)
   {
      #uses $value1 to pick out the magnitude and angle
      $magnitude = blah;
      $angle = blah;

###point of interest###
      @constructPolar = &constructComplex(&PolarToRect($value1));
      $real = $constructPolar[0];
      $complex = $constructPolar[2];
###point of interest###
   }

   if($isinRectForm)
   {
      $real = blah;
      $complex = blah;

      #haven't implemented getting polar values from rect form because
+ getting the rect values from polar doesn't work yet
   }

   $construct[0] = $real;
   $construct[1] = $complex;
   $construct[2] = $magnitude;
   $construct[3] = $angle;
}

sub PolarToRect {
my($magnitude, $angle, $real, $complex);
#does it
return $magnitude . " _ " $angle;
}

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2005-11-08 Retitled by broquaint, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'Recursion!!'

In reply to Constructing complex numbers using recursion by moltar512

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