Subject: Re: Re: Re: Incrementing a Global variable
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 10:42:26 +0100
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> and do workarounds
> like recursion etc. to simulate procedural kind of
> tasks.
Wrong way to think about it.
Recursion is the natural style, an imperative iterative loop over a
variable representing some machine state is a strange machine-oriented
way to express the problem introduced because to do any better would
have over-stretched the compiler capabilities of the mid 20th century
machines.
David
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