in reply to Constructing complex numbers using recursion

Do you use use warnings; use strict? As it stands, and ignoring the gratuitous blah stuff, this is broken code. On the face of it $real = @constructPolar[0]; is not valid. There are other similar problems.

Try to put together an example that can actually be run and demonstrates the problem.

Perl is Huffman encoded by design.

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Re^2: Constructing complex numbers using recursion
by moltar512 (Sexton) on Nov 08, 2005 at 04:36 UTC
    oh ya, i do use warnings and strict
    you guys have yelled at me about that before ;)

    checking my code, i do have $real = $constructPolar[0].. my mistake

    My code is really really long.. haha..
    this is the general idea of what it is doing.. without the stuff I marked as interesting it is working okay. I figured there might be a weird reason i couldn't just do recursion like i was trying to. I don't think it should infinitely loop.. i don't see how it could.. but it doesn't make any sense why it should make my system hang when i try to run/compile it
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      Where do $isinPolarForm, $isinRectForm get set?

      Perl is Huffman encoded by design.
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        $isinPolarForm are flags

        In the actual program:
            #if value1 is in polar form
    if(rindex($value1, "_") > 0)
    {
        $value1isRectangular = 0;

        $magnitude1 = substr($value1, 0, index($value1, " "));
        $angle1 =substr($value1, (rindex($value1, " ") + 1), length($v
+alue1));
        
        #@constructedvalue1Polar = &constructComplex(&PolarToRect($val
+ue1));
        #$real1 = $constructedvalue1Polar[0];
        #$complex1 = $constructedvalue1Polar[2];
    }

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