The Directory Walker revisited

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Fri Sep 5 14:41:01 EDT 2003


On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 01:20 PM, Wouter wrote:

>> It doesn't matter how "wide" the directory structure is, just how 
>> deep.
>
> But as far as I can see the total amount of recursions to attain this 
> depth will be far greater than 20, because it recurses on every folder 
> it encounters on its quest to the deepsest level. To me this means 
> that wideness in this handler does matter.
> May be the problem is only in the terminology.

Yes the problem may be terminology.  Though the use of a repeat loop 
does add a little to the stack, the number of repetitions do not.  (Not 
in Revolution, it might in other environments.)

Dar




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