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    A very interesting question. Still awaiting answer so posting again.

    What does this method do?

Stuff is a object in java with two members someStuff and anotherStuff


public static Stuff doSomeStuff (Stuff s0, Stuff s1) {
        Stuff someStuff = s1.getSomeStuff();
        if(someStuff != null){
            s1.setSomeStuff(doSomeStuff(null, someStuff));
        }



if(s1.getAnotherStuff()==null){
s1.setAnotherStuff(s0);
return s1;
} else {
Stuff myStuff = doSomeStuff(s1,s1.getAnotherStuff());
s1.setAnotherStuff(s0);
return myStuff;
}
}

    Does it have any bugs or edge cases where it will not execute?
    Describe the time complexity of the function and comment on its effectiveness.

    - chaos on June 22, 2012 in United States Report Duplicate | Flag
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Think of Stuff as tree and somestruff as rightchild and otherstuff as leftchild. Now problem is easy :)

- Abhishek on June 22, 2012 | Flag Reply
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Does it have any bugs or edge cases where it will not execute?
Describe the time complexity of the function and comment on its effectiveness.

- chaos on June 23, 2012 | Flag
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Nullyfy all tree elements

- Anonymous on June 23, 2012 | Flag Reply
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Does it have any bugs or edge cases where it will not execute?
Describe the time complexity of the function and comment on its effectiveness.

- chaos on June 23, 2012 | Flag
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is it not doing the recursive call, which ends in indeifinite loop

Stuff someStuff = s1.getSomeStuff();
        if(someStuff != null){
            s1.setSomeStuff(doSomeStuff(null, someStuff)); // recursive call here
        }

- Sathiya Moorthy on July 10, 2012 | Flag Reply


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