Iteration over recursion?

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Sudden Disruption a écrit :
> Bruno,
> 
> 
>>It doesn't. Technical possible, but BDFL's decision...
> 
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> 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.