Software bugs aren't inevitable

[Ron Adam]

Terry Reedy wrote:

> You cannot tell whether a function object will act
> recursive or not just by looking at its code body.  Trivial examples:

I was thinking last night that maybe it would be useful to be able to 
define a function explicitly as a recursive object where it's frame is 
reused on successive calls, but then I realized that it's nearly 
identical to a loop in that context, so why not just write it as a loop 
to start with.

Cheers,
Ron