Talk:Fibonacci sequence: Difference between revisions

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I also notice that other examples which have ended up in the 'Iteration' section might risk compounding a reader's confusion – they are either implemented by direct and immediate recursion on helper functions like '''go''' and '''next''', or are expressed in terms of '''zipWith''', '''scanl''' etc, which are also implemented as recursive functions.

Perhaps 'iteration' is not quite the clearest or best fitting term to use here ?

Perhaps 'iteration' is not quite the clearest or best-fitting term to use here ?

[[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 19:31, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

FWIW, I that if we need to subdivide, the main distinction is '''memoising vs not memoising'''. If we feel a need to subdivide further and capture something like the category now labelled "Iterative", ~~the~~ perhaps what we really mean here is closer to ''direct and indirect recursion'' ? [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 19:44, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

FWIW, I would argue that if we need to subdivide, then the main distinction here is '''memoising vs not memoising'''. If we feel a need to subdivide further, and perhaps capture something like the category now labelled "Iterative", then perhaps what we really mean here is closer to ''direct and indirect recursion'' ? [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 19:44, 2 February 2017 (UTC)