Re: Newbie: How does a lambda recurse?

Subject: Re: Newbie: How does a lambda recurse?
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 23:47:23 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3230927243550741@naggum.net>

* William D Clinger
| I have no idea what Erik might mean by "massively wasteful programming
| styles".

  Really?  I thought you had hung around here for a while...

  E.g., the classic Scheme mistake: Using recursion where absolutely no
  state information is retained between iterations, such as traversing down
  a list with recursive calls.
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