Calling a Function with Same argument twice

[sapan shah]

Hi,

see the code below.
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-module(temp).
-compile(export_all).


start(X) ->
    put(test, 0),
    case X of 1 -> test(2, 2); 2-> test1(2) end,
    get(test).


test(0,0) ->
    put(test, get(test) +1),
    {0,0};

test(X,Y) ->
    {element(1,test(X-1,Y-1)),element(2,test(X-1,Y-1))}.


test1(0) ->
    put(test, get(test) +1),
    {0};
test1(X) ->
    {element(1,test1(X-1))}.
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We call temp:start(1), the output is 4. The output should have been 1.
Here, when start(1) is called, it intern calls
{element(1, test(1,1), element(2, test(1,1)}

The first call of test(1,1) should recursively evaluate test(1,1) while the
second call should already use the value returned by the first call.. Is
this a right thinking???
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Regards,
Sapan Shah