[ghettoimp]

Very much agree.

If you are working on any kind of tree structure, graph, parse tree, etc., recursion can be really beautiful and clear.

My theory: folks like iteration because 90% of the "for" loops they write are really just "foreach".

[bogomipz]

>"folks like iteration because 90% of the "for" loops they write are really just "foreach"."

I didn't understand this comment. What do you mean by "for vs foreach."? Can you elaborate?

[bkdonline]

I guess the foreach is where each iteration has independent operation, vs a generic for loop where this iteration depends on result of the previous iterations.