I used the debugger to examine this code but not understanding a couple areas.

  1. Why does the for loop repeat after it exits to print a new line? If it exits the loop, shouldn’t it be done with it?
  2. Why is n incremented and not i as stated with i++?

int main(void)
{
    int height = get_int("Height: ");

    draw(height);
}

void draw(int n)
{
    if (n <= 0)
    {
        return;
    }

    draw(n - 1);

    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
    {
        printf("#");
    }
    printf("\n");
}
  • milon@lemm.eeOP
    1·
    1 year ago

    Yes, that helps. Thanks. I see now how n goes from 1 to 2 to 3…etc. Now not so sure how i = 1 when the for loop starts.

    • Merwyn
      1·
      1 year ago

      When called with n=1 ? It’s from i=0 to i<1, so it will do only one iteration with i=0 and print one #.