Documented research indicate that on Tue, 5 Jul 2005 14:07:21 -0700 (PDT), "Richard Lynch" wrote: > You'd think having done a zillion of these in my Grad School days would > have made more of an impression... > > Mostly it impressed me that recursion wasn't "cool" -- just another "tool" > and one that you only should pull out 1% of the time. When we learned about recursion it took our teacher 15 minutes to come up with an example for what the heck it was good for ... and it wasn't even a good one (can't remember what it was). I only use recursion when I need to output data stored in a tree format (you know, each child has a parent, each parent can have multiple children), otherwise I don't really know what to use recursion for. Mostly I have database queries where the results are built into 2-3 D arrays, and then used as the data the recursions work from ... found it to be the only way doing those trees fast when the data is variable and stored in a database... -- Rene Brehmer aka Metalbunny We have nothing to fear from free speech and free information on the Internet, but pop-up advertising! http://metalbunny.net/ My little mess of things... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
