command input in function?

Hi,

not sure about the thread name, but tried to describe my problem good. Tried searching too, but didn't really find anything useful :(

Got a binarysearchtree task at school. Got the tree set ut and now I am writing functions for calculating height, depths etc. Got at traversal function that calls it self recursive, and it works like a charm :):

Code:

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public void traversal(BinNode<E> n) {
        if (n != null) {
                // DO PREFIX
                traverser(n.left);
                // DO INFIX
                traverser(n.right);
                // DO POSTFIX
        }
}

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Is it possible to add an argument that i want to run in this function? Like this:

Code:

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public void traversal(BinNode<E> n, command toexecute) {
...
//DO INFIX
execute(toexecute)
...
}

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So if I call it:
traversal(root, System.out.println(n.data));
It will print out n.data infix (or whereever i placed execute(toexecute))?

I solved my school task, but there i made alot of traversal functions, and it would be so much neater if it is possible to do it this way? :)

Do u want to receive arguments from command line?

Java isn't a scripting language, so you can't do that. I'm guessing that's where you're coming from.

As to how you'd write something like this in Java, it depends what and why you want different things to happen in the traversal. However, the usual way would be to have an interface, say, and various implementations of the interface, depending on what it is you want them to do.

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Originally Posted by Tolls

Java isn't a scripting language, so you can't do that. I'm guessing that's where you're coming from.

As to how you'd write something like this in Java, it depends what and why you want different things to happen in the traversal. However, the usual way would be to have an interface, say, and various implementations of the interface, depending on what it is you want them to do.

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Ok, thanks :(

RamyaSivakanth: No :)

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Originally Posted by 2rs1

Ok, thanks :(

RamyaSivakanth: No :)

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If you gave us more to go on there might be other options, but the "single method that does different things depending on the circumstances" is usually an interface thing...not always, but in a learning environment, usually.