On Feb 9, 5:15 pm, Massimo Di Pierro <[email protected]> wrote: > Not in python. It has no tail recursion so it will crash the > interpreter if you have more than ~1000 terms (depending on how python > was compiled).
That's an implementation detail! sys.setrecursionlimit(n) can get you quite far, however :) The main problem with using recursion is that most colleagues will be unable to understand or debug your code. This is by far the greatest value consideration, and very few problems justify recursion when python is so richly packed with intelligent iterators and generous generators.
