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I disagree. It can be useful to call main from other contexts- for example, recursion.

DeadMG
– DeadMG

2012-03-26 22:35:11 +00:00
Commented Mar 26, 2012 at 22:35
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Personally if you're recurring your main method I think you should instead be calling another method and recurring that. Only in the simplest contexts (console app of roughly homework-level complexity/difficulty) would it be acceptable to call main() from within your program, and I would call that a trivial situation.

KeithS
– KeithS

2012-03-26 22:57:12 +00:00
Commented Mar 26, 2012 at 22:57

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