in re... I discussed directory bla bla

Rick Hohensee (humbubba@smarty.smart.net)
Mon, 21 Jun 1999 08:06:23 -0400 (EDT)

Torvalds
>A lot of people think recursion is "nasty" - while in fact it's a very
>elegant way to do something that would otherwise be much uglier. So I
>think it's only right and proper to have symlinks be just another kind of
>wormhole. No special cases.
>
> Linus

I think it was in K&R2 somewhere I saw it said that, paraphrasing,
"recursion makes sense for data structures defined recursively, like
hierarchical filesystems."

Although I'd guess they were talking about semantics, and not
implementation issues like stack effects.

Rick Hohensee
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