[Tutor] recursive problem

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 03:18:19 am Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> But that hasn't done anything to prevent race conditions. So the real
> reason people use LBYL is that they're too lazy to write hideously
> ugly, but reliable, code, and they're just hoping that they will
> never expose the race condition. (Often this is a pretty safe hope,
> but not always.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrich_algorithm


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Steven D'Aprano