It appears recursion is nice but *iteration* takes up less space than
recursion?....
And tail recursion allows us to nest our recursion as insanely as we want
knowing that compiler/interpreter will convert it under the hood to
a for loop for us!?!??
I tried this in Python....
def f(x):
print x,
f(x)
It didn't go on forever but bombed with a "maximum recursion depth exceeded"
message.
If all the smart kids know about tail recursion then how come the Python
interpreter couldn't/didn't use tail recursion to prevent my infinite loop from
bombing?
Chris
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