Is there a goto like there is in BASIC?

[Larz60+]

and direct or indirect recursion

That sounds like that 'advice' many tried to give me about overriding classes in C++, and especially bad they would tout was multiple inheritance.
Don't hear any of that much anymore
There are certain things that recursion does that I can't really imagine doing any other way.

[micseydel]

There are certain things that recursion does that I can't really imagine doing any other way.

Anything recursive can be written in an iterative fashion. You might have to manage a stack manually, but it's always doable.

While I believe "indirect" (or "mutual") recursion is playing with fire, and I regret deeply the one time I tried it, "direct" or regular recursion has a learning curve to it but is arguably better than using break or continue in a loop. CPython lacks optimizations for recursion, but as a style of control flow it can be an elegant way to avoid side effects.

[Larz60+]

Use it all the time, hasn't burnt me yet!

[nilamo]

A trampoline can replace recursion, though I think that just counts as indirect recursion.

[Larz60+]

Nist recommends recursion for fsclm_DeriveSymmetricKeys

See page 32: http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/doc...0sp437.pdf

When used, you can have a good idea of maximum depths, and can limit it as well.

I agree that it's better avoided if possible, but I still feel it has uses, as here.