On 28-Aug-12 09:03, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 28/08/2012 16:51, Dharmit Shah wrote:
@ Steve : Thank you. As suggested by Dave Angel, I am going to try the
loop. And even before implementing it, I can feel that it's going to
be more efficient than recursion.
May I ask why you appear to be concerned with efficiency for a hangman
game?
Not the game per se, but if you're searching a file of thousands of
words one at a time, randomly picking words and recursing if they're not
what you intended, the hit--worst case--could be catastrophic.
--
Steve Willoughby / st...@alchemy.com
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."
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