Re: Functional Programing: stop using recursion, cons. Use map & vectors

From	dihedral88888@googlemail.com
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Subject	Re: Functional Programing: stop using recursion, cons. Use map & vectors
Date	2011-10-11 01:01 -0700
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In my experience of using recursion of multiple levels, the following situations are possible: 

1. unpredictable chained close loop recursion that will hang in some bugs

2. with those nested calls in a single line, the old style step-by-step break down  for debugging becomes really inconveniently

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Functional Programing: stop using recursion, cons. Use map & vectors Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> - 2011-05-22 15:47 -0700
  Re: Functional Programing: stop using recursion, cons. Use map & vectors Deeyana <d.awlberg@hotmail.invalid> - 2011-05-23 02:29 +0000
    Re: Functional Programing: stop using recursion, cons. Use map & vectors asandroq <asandroq@gmail.com> - 2011-05-23 00:52 -0700
      Re: Functional Programing: stop using recursion, cons. Use map & vectors Deeyana <d.awlberg@hotmail.invalid> - 2011-05-23 22:27 +0000
        Re: Functional Programing: stop using recursion, cons. Use map & vectors asandroq <asandroq@gmail.com> - 2011-05-24 13:39 -0700
          Re: Functional Programing: stop using recursion, cons. Use map & vectors Deeyana <d.awlberg@hotmail.invalid> - 2011-05-25 00:03 +0000
  Re: Functional Programing: stop using recursion, cons. Use map & vectors torbenm@diku.dk (Torben Ægidius Mogensen) - 2011-05-23 10:51 +0200
    Re: Functional Programing: stop using recursion, cons. Use map & vectors "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2011-05-23 15:39 +0200
      Re: Functional Programing: stop using recursion, cons. Use map & vectors Antti J Ylikoski <antti.ylikoski@tkk.fi> - 2011-05-23 19:36 +0300
  Re: Functional Programing: stop using recursion, cons. Use map & vectors dihedral88888@googlemail.com - 2011-10-11 01:01 -0700

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