Re: Recursion or interation...??


Robert Bralic WROTE:

> Hello,
>
> Doees anybody knows, what is better
> to use in LISP, recursion or interation...??
> (in situation when you can use both)
>
> Thanks in advance, Robert...!!!

It depends on your LISP implement. If your Lisp offers shallow stack
space for
recursion , very offen your job will burn out that stack space if you
code in recursion.
But recursion got its convenience , eg it's more expressive than the
iterative one.

For iteration , I am too stupid to remember those complicative
operators and their
syntax , eg do , dotimes , dolist ... I am so simple minded that I only
learned loop
plus conditions . And I am so foolished that I only learned "cond" for
conditioning.
I am very stupid but my codes still work. You can see :
http://groups.google.com.tw/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/46338401c260b19c?dmode=source&hl=zh-TW
I hope you all enjoy that !!

.

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