--- "Anders J. Munch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Converting tail-recursion to iteration is trivial, > and perfectly reasonable for > a human to do by hand. You add an outer "while > True"-loop, the recursive call > becomes a tuple assignment, and other code paths end > with a break out of the > loop. Completely mechanical and the resulting code > doesn't even look that bad. >
I have to ask the stupid question. If a human can do this completely mechanically, why can't a machine? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get the Yahoo! toolbar and be alerted to new email wherever you're surfing. http://new.toolbar.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/index.php -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list