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[Tim Blechmann]

> I don't understand.  I've understood recursive to mean a function that
> calls itself within itself.  The output from my patch retriggers the
> patch, but to my understanding it should all be determinate; if Pd
> uses depth-first message passing, it should finish with one thread
> before calling the next.  The abstraction is only retriggered from its
> left outlet, so nothing should happen during the 10 ms delay.
> 
> I'm also not sure how [until] will help.  Pd doesn't know how many
> scalars the score has, or how many are of any one structure.
> 
> I'm still not clear on what "the stack" is or what makes it overflow.
> Thanks.
> 

in pd every outlet call is a recursive function call ... if an message
goes back to the message signal flow, you have an iteration ...

i've attached a simple patch with a counter counting to 100 ... this
might show you the difference ...

hth ... tim


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#N canvas 411 156 579 300 10;
#X obj 94 136 int;
#X obj 120 136 + 1;
#X obj 94 180 moses 100;
#X msg 94 88 0;
#X obj 94 160 t f f f;
#X obj 138 236 print;
#X obj 68 180 b;
#X obj 290 130 int;
#X obj 316 130 + 1;
#X msg 290 64 0;
#X obj 334 230 print;
#X obj 290 84 t b f;
#X obj 290 107 until;
#X obj 290 176 moses 100;
#X obj 357 176 b;
#X obj 290 154 t f f f;
#X text 92 23 recursive counter;
#X text 288 23 iterative counter;
#X connect 0 0 4 0;
#X connect 1 0 0 1;
#X connect 2 0 6 0;
#X connect 3 0 0 0;
#X connect 4 0 2 0;
#X connect 4 1 1 0;
#X connect 4 2 5 0;
#X connect 6 0 0 0;
#X connect 7 0 15 0;
#X connect 8 0 7 1;
#X connect 9 0 11 0;
#X connect 11 0 12 0;
#X connect 11 1 7 0;
#X connect 12 0 7 0;
#X connect 13 1 14 0;
#X connect 14 0 12 1;
#X connect 15 0 13 0;
#X connect 15 1 8 0;
#X connect 15 2 10 0;
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