Iterative vs. Recursive coding

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2010-08-20, John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> wrote:
> Python does not do tail recursion, so using recursion where
> iteration could do the job is generally a bad idea.  Scheme, on
> the other hand, always does tail recursion where possible.

A tail-recursive function is usually easy to convert to a
loop-style iteration. However, Scheme does tail-call
optimization, I believe, which is slightly more general.

-- 
Neil Cerutti