Re: [xsl] Processing based on number - alternatives to recursion?

[Michael Ludwig <mlu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Carlisle schrieb:

[insightful, exhaustive explanation]

Thanks a lot for your answer! No further questions. (Not for the moment,
that is.)

[tail recursion]

> then the intermediate results are built up in the parameter list and
> so you don't need to preserve the function call stack you can just
> reuse the same space at each iteration (in otherwords it's essentially
> a loop).

It's interesting that you can think of a loop as of a recursive function
call that doesn't have to remember where it came from because it doesn't
have to go back.

Michael