general C++ question

variable2009

I was wondering if there was a limit to how many nested statements you could put in a program? For instance, nesting an if...else statement within a switch statement that is within a while statement. Any enlightenment would be appreciated.

hussey

variable2009 wrote: »

I was wondering if there was a limit to how many nested statements you could put in a program? For instance, nesting an if...else statement within a switch statement that is within a while statement. Any enlightenment would be appreciated.

I don't think so - would be all compiler/memory related, but I would assume a couple of hundred thousand

Hobbes

variable2009 wrote: »

I was wondering if there was a limit to how many nested statements you could put in a program?

Not aware of a limit, but from a coding style standpoint you should avoid doing too many.

If you need a large number then a recursive method/function would probably be better (at least in maintaining the code).

fasty

For the sake of programming style, I would say stick to 2 or 3 nested statements.

I guess if you had LOTS of local variables in the mix or a few large ones, you'd have stack overflow to worry about. But then the same could be said of recursion...