On May 26, 6:12 am, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just conducted a rapid poll of a non-technical userbase. > > (Okay, I just asked my sister who happens to be sitting here. But > she's nontechnical.) > > She explained "recursive" as "it repeats until it can't go any > further". I think that's a fair, if not perfectly accurate, > explanation.
Yes but understanding of this sort is very general ESPECIALLY in the case of destroying data! What are the limits of the recursion? What forces can act on the recursion to stop it? If (for example) I know that a "while loop" will continue forever until "something" stops it then i really don't know enough about while loops to start using them safely do i? I need to know what a "break" will do or god forbid what if an exception is thrown? What about if a condition is explicitly passed? I need to know how to interpret the condition and it's consequences. Crikey, this is getting complicated 8-O! PS: Of course i could just cross my fingers, run the code, and hope for the best but i'm not a Perl hacker. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
