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  1. Path: mail2news.demon.co.uk!genesis.demon.co.uk
  2. From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.apl
  4. Subject: Re: GOTO controversy
  5. Date: Wed, 03 Apr 96 16:40:19 GMT
  6. Organization: none
  7. Message-ID: <828549619snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>
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  14. In article <AD87DB279668D9F74@mcdiala15.it.luc.edu>
  15.            VArase@varase.it.luc.edu "Verne Arase" writes:
  16.  
  17. >Recursion can make for visually appealing and simplified code, but in real
  18. >terms they're nothing but trouble unless you can absolutely positively
  19. >guarantee a finite, known level stack depth.
  20.  
  21. An O(log N) stack depth is generally not a problem. I guess you could say
  22. that is finite because there are typically practical upper bounds to N.
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  26. Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
  27. Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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