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Fri Sep 16 12:16:01 EDT 2005 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-September/334597.html

Terry Reedy wrote:

> You cannot tell whether a function object will act
> recursive or not just by looking at its code body.  Trivial examples:

I was thinking last night that maybe it would be useful to be able to 
define a function explicitly as a recursive object where it's frame is 
reused on successive calls, but then I realized that it's nearly 
identical to a loop in that context, so why not just write it as a loop 
to start with.

Cheers,
Ron

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