Thanks for the tip. I have never used ADMs, for some reason I find them
confusing - for example, should I call super.eval within the evaluate
method?

Sean Luke wrote:

> It depends on how you want to do loops.  What do you mean by
> automatically-defined-loops exactly?  It seems to me that the
> straightforward way is to just have a loop macro as one of your
> nodes, whose eval() method looks something like this:
>
>     result = empty
>     n = eval first child
>     loop n times or until MAX_ALLOWED_LOOPS:
>         result = eval second child
>     return result
>
> Or you could have a while loop along these lines:
>
>     count = 0;
>     loop up to MAX_ALLOWED_LOOPS:
>         n = eval first child
>         if n == true then eval second child and return
>     return empty
>
> Sean
>
> On Dec 7, 2005, at 7:55 PM, George Coles wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>    Can anyone point me to an example of automatically defined loops
>> that works with tree-based GP? Has anyone implemented loops in ECJ?
>> I am
>> contemplating beginning to add this feature to my copy of ECJ and it
>> seems a bit daunting. Could the ADF stack be leveraged somehow to do
>> this? As an aside, it seems odd that iteration and recursion are not
>> more popular as a topic of discussion. I expect that I will really
>> need
>> iteration, at least, in my project, and I would think that many people
>> would find it very valuable.
>>
>> Thanks
>> George Coles
>>
>