On 15/08/06, Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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From: Collin Winter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> FWIW, I've never come across a situation using unittest where knowing
> the structure would be important (though I can imagine such cases).
I remember when I first encountered recursion back in the early 80s. Almost all
of my programming at the time was in BASIC or assembler nad I couldn't fathom
how recursion would be useful to me.
In reality, you never *need* recursion, but sometimes it can be helpful and is
often the simplest way of writing things out. If we are going to reach out to
other programming communities, we need to understand that even if we disagree
with their way of doing things, it doesn't hurt to support those ways so long
as it doesn't interfere with other ways of doing things.
I don't want to get involved in another lengthy argument but this is
not recursion. Recursion involves a function that eventually calls
itself. The example I gave is just nesting, that's just the equivalent
of subroutines. I can't think of an application of recursion in this
situation (I haven't thought very hard!), all I'm asking for is
subroutines (grouping and subgrouping),
F
