Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ihlpb!ihnp4!poseidon!ech From: ech@poseidon.UUCP (Edward C Horvath) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Re: what the heck is "reentrant"? Message-ID: <468@poseidon.UUCP> Date: 9 Aug 88 19:48:57 GMT References: <3111@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft, NJ Lines: 8 > I'm excluding rescursive routines because they are by definition, > and presumably be design, reentrant. No, a recursive routine calls itself only at specific, presumably "safe" points in its lifetime: operations that "look" atomic (like i := i+1) ARE atomic. Such routines may still not be reentrant. =Ned Horvath=