Sudden Disruption a écrit : > Bruno, > > >>It doesn't. Technical possible, but BDFL's decision... > > > Sure. But why bother?
Because I do like recursion, and would personnally prefer tail-recursion optimisation over nice tracebacks. But I'm not in position to decide anything here. > Anything that can be done with recursion can be done with iteration. > Turng proved that in 1936. Yes. And everything done with Python can be done with assembly language too. > Recursion was just an attempt to "unify" design approach by abstracting > itteration and creating a new context. It allowed the programmer to > isolate himself from the reality that he was actually iterating. Talk > about mind fuck. Recursion is the most convenient way to express some common algorithms. Too bad for you if it does some nasty things to your mind. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
