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tsw@netcom.com (Tim Walker) writes:
> Does anyone know if Occam3 will be recursive? This is a big drawback
>in Occam2 when trying to implement things like parallel searchs.

As the adding of recursion would prevent the compile-time-only memory
allocation from being performed (occam programs should never run out of
memory at runtime); I suspect not.

However, having recently implemented the Towers of Hanoi on a processor farm
and quicksort in occam (Tony Hoare's sort algorithm on C.S.P. hardware, hmm),
I found the building of my own stack to hold the details of the recursing on
to be the quite literally the easist part of the whole designing and writing
process, and it's not something I've had to do before.  Doing it all yourself
means you can build a queue instead of a stack and do things breadth-first if
you wish.

> -- Tim Walker  (tsw@netcom.com)

Warren