Self function

[Carl Banks]

On May 4, 1:25 pm, bearophileH... at lycos.com wrote:
> Aahz:
>
> > When have you ever had a binary tree a thousand levels deep?
>
> Yesterday.
>
> >Consider how big 2**1000 is...<
>
> You are thinking just about complete binary trees.
> But consider that a topology like a single linked list (every node has
> 1 child, and they are chained) is a true binary tree still.

1. Singly-linked lists can and should be handled with iteration.  All
recursion does it make what you're doing a lot less readable for
almost all programmers.

2. You should be using a Python list anyway.


Carl Banks