[comp.software-eng] Recursion in flowcharts -- how do you represent it?

dsims@uceng.UC.EDU (david l sims) (06/25/91)

I'm making an informal survey of how people represent recursion when
drawing flowcharts.

Would anyone care to share her ideas?
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David Sims, dsims@uceng.uc.edu

jerry@talos.npri.com (Jerry Gitomer) (06/25/91)

dsims@uceng.UC.EDU (david l sims) writes:

>I'm making an informal survey of how people represent recursion when
>drawing flowcharts.

>Would anyone care to share her ideas?
>-- 
	When I used to use flow charts (I prefer state diagrams and text
	outlines) I used two techniques.  In overview charts I drew a line
	out of the side of the box representing the recursive routine and
	routed it back into the top of the same box.  In a detailed chart I
	drew a line out of the side of the symbol representing the block of
	code that did the call and connected it to the housekeeping block 
	of the routine.

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