Well, I disagree with you here. And, so do the people I asked for opinions. Recursion is a looping construct. Even your explination is a loop. You can not push things onto a stack and then evaluate what is on that stack incrementally without a loop. No need to really continue this, but after trying to find anyone else I know to have the same opinion as you, I stand by everyone elses answers that this can't be done without looping, and that recursion is indeed a looping construct. Just take a pencil and paper and draw out a flow of the snippet you gave, you will see the obvious loop.
Cheers,
KM
