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[Theerasak Photha]

On 21 Oct 2006 01:31:55 -0700, bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
<bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
> Theerasak Photha:
> > I guess Python isn't tail-recursive then?
>
> Right.
>
>
> > Well, algorithms seem to be more naturally expressed iteratively in
> > Python, and to be fair, most uses of recursion you see in e.g., Scheme
> > textbooks are really just grandstanding in the real world.
>
> Still, some algorithms enjoy some recursivity anyway, like some graph
> or tree exploration, structure flattening, and so on, for them I
> sometimes use recursivity in Python too.

That's absolutely true. However, it is probably unusual in most
circumstances for such recursions to blow through more than a thousand
stack frames.

-- Theerasak