From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ra.nrl.navy.mil!dca6-feed2.news.algx.net!jfk3-feed1.news.algx.net!allegiance!news.stealth.net!news.stealth.net!news-hub.siol.net!newsfeed.Austria.EU.net!newsfeed.kpnqwest.at!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader2.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Newbie: How does a lambda recurse? References: <3CE4F29D.128C4B77@interaccess.com> <3ce7da9c$0$97282$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> <3230861121663553@naggum.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3230927243550741@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 23:47:23 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 1021938443 193.71.199.50 (Tue, 21 May 2002 01:47:23 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 01:47:23 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:33587 * 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. -- In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief. 70 percent of American adults do not understand the scientific process.