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From: jerry@talos.npri.com (Jerry Gitomer)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Recursion in flowcharts -- how do you represent it?
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Date: 25 Jun 91 13:03:31 GMT
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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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