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rasmus@bellglobal.com
Tue, 15 Apr 1997 13:40:29 -0400 (EDT) 

From: rasmus@bellglobal.com
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 13:40:29 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [mSQL] Boolean Searches with w3-msql??
Message-Id: <ML-2.3.861126029.8606.rasmus@inet-dev>

> There y'ar. A quick and pretty funky, untested state-based parser for
> basic unnested input logic (no paren's, left to eight precedence). A more
> appropriate way in classic programming is a recursive function call, but
> that's a little much for PHP.

PHP does actually support recurstion in the user-defined functions. It
also has static variables within functions to actually make the
recursion useful.

I agree though, something which needs lots of recursion is beyond the scope
of what languages like Lite and PHP were designed to do.

-Rasmus
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