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Re: Iterative vs Recursive Processesby vladb (Vicar) |
on May 13, 2003 at 17:47 UTC ( [id://257846]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I may be missing some deeper nested (no pun intended :) point, but how is your factorial_iterative() interative? Inside you simply make a call to fi_helper() which is a recursive subroutine.
An interative routine would be the one which didn't make a call to itself and instead used loops to complete the task (as some of other commenters already did). (ps: the subject of this thread is great and I enjoyed reading both your and other monks' posts :) update: mvaline, ahh that makes sense now ;-) Thanks for your reply. _____________________ "We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." Robert Wilensky, University of California
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