list parameter of a recursive function

[TP]

Seebs wrote:

> On 2010-10-07, TP <Tribulations at Paralleles.invalid> wrote:
>> Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
>>> A safer alternative for these cases is using tuples, because they are
>>> immutable.
> 
>> The problem with tuples is that it is not easy to modify them:
> 
> This is probably the best post-and-response I've seen in the last couple
> of months.

:-) Yes, they are immutable. I badly expressed the fact that the facilities 
of lists to create new lists are not available with tuples.

But my sentence was funny, I have to admit it :-) I hope that this 
conversation will not be included in the "fortunes"!!

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