On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:33:52 +0100, Invisible wrote:

>> Uh, wha?  No recursion?
> 
> Cute. Now try doing that while actually processing some data. Oh, wait,
> you can't - no local variables. :-P

You can, local variables aren't required, you just have to code around 
that limitation.

You can certainly cause stack overflows (since that's how RETURN gets 
back to the entry point).

> Of course, BASIC is Turing-complete. You can implement variable scoping
> manually yourself. But that's not the same as the language having real
> support for recursion...

You said "no recursion".  I showed there was some.  Give up now. ;-)

Jim

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