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> On that subject, for text programming, the use of recursion is almost > always the sign of an inexperienced or poor programmer. Odd then that I find myself using recursion more and more as my programming career moves into its fourth decade. It's partly, of course, the result of exposure to functional programming languages: this often means that the recursive solution is the first thing you think of rather than the last. It's also partly because most code isn't performance-critical. But with the caveat "for text programming" I see your point: I find recursive code very natural when dealing with recursive data structures (trees) but less natural when dealing with linear data (sequences and strings). Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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