Greg Ewing greg.ewing at compaq.com
Mon Jul 19 18:29:47 EDT 1999

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catlee at my-deja.com wrote:
> 
> - Is it conceivable that a user could make write some resource
> intensive code without using any kind of jump operations?

Yes!

def fib(n):
    return {
        0: lambda: 1,
        1: lambda n=n: fib(n-1) + fib(n-2)
    }[n>=3]()

Although if you include function calls as well 
as jumps, you're probably safe (until Tim comes
up with an even more perverted counterexample).

Greg

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