Re: Fibonacci series recursion error

From	Hans Georg Schaathun <hg@schaathun.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Fibonacci series recursion error
Date	2011-04-30 14:21 +0100
Organization	University of Bergen
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On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 12:29:00 +0100, Paul Rudin
  <paul.nospam@rudin.co.uk> wrote:
:  Clearly it makes a difference in any case where you'd hit the recursion
:  limit.

What kind of problems make you hit the limit?

Other than when you forget the base case, I mean.

:          It's no big deal to do your own unwinding of the recursion to a
:  loop, but the code is typically less clear.

Sure.  And you have to live with your less clear code when you maintain
the system later.

-- 
:-- Hans Georg

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Re: Fibonacci series recursion error Hans Georg Schaathun <hg@schaathun.net> - 2011-04-30 12:01 +0100
  Re: Fibonacci series recursion error Paul Rudin <paul.nospam@rudin.co.uk> - 2011-04-30 12:29 +0100
    Re: Fibonacci series recursion error Hans Georg Schaathun <hg@schaathun.net> - 2011-04-30 14:21 +0100

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