[metapost] Re: all intersections between two paths

[Hans Hagen]

Laurence Finston wrote:

> I _always_ try to eliminate recursion in my programs wherever possible, and it
> often is.  I haven't read your code, so I don't know whether it is in this
> case.  However, I think it would be worthwhile to consider whether you
> couldn't just put the subpaths onto an array and loop over the array until
> some condition is met.

there's nothing wrong with recursion; in tex/mp, try to use tail recursion and 
then there are no limits

Hans


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