On Mon, 04 May 2009 15:51:15 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: > All > recursion does it make what you're doing a lot less readable for almost > all programmers.
What nonsense. There are many algorithms that are more understandable written recursively than iteratively -- consult any good text book for examples. There are algorithms that are naturally iterative, and algorithms which are naturally recursive (and a few which are equally simple either way), and forcing either one into the other form leads to complicated and confusing code. This especially holds for mutually- recursive functions, where re-writing them to be iterative is usually very difficult. Sometimes it's worth rewriting a recursive algorithm to be iterative for the performance optimization, but that comes at the price of reduced readability. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
