i'm quite new to perl & haven't really used objects in perl before. i'm just trying to traverse a simple binary tree. the following will find the leftmost node, and print it out, but then it doesn't seem to GO anywhere--ie it doesn't seem to print out the higher nodes which called it, and move along to the right. anyone know what's up? is it something peculiar to perl (or have i just done something wrong)? 
sub display
{    my $self = shift;
    $self->displaynames($self->{root});
}

sub displaynames
{    my $self = shift;
    $head = shift;
    print $head->{Val}, " ";
    if (defined ($head->{LRef}))
    {    $self->displaynames($head->{LRef});
    }
    print $head->{Val}, "\n";
    if (defined ($head->{RRef}))
    {    $self->displaynames($head->{RRef});
    }
}

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edited: Mon Jun 24 14:42:19 2002 by jeffa - title change

In reply to Trouble traversing binary tree (was: recursion) by Basilides

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