On 21 Oct 2006 00:50:34 -0700, Ant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> But there's a good reason not to. Try:
>
> printreverse(range(1000))
>
> Recursion has a maximum depth (of 1000 by default) in Python.

I guess Python isn't tail-recursive then?

Well, algorithms seem to be more naturally expressed iteratively in
Python, and to be fair, most uses of recursion you see in e.g., Scheme
textbooks are really just grandstanding in the real world.

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