meaning of conversion to iteration
1. conversion to iteration A transformation applied to functional programs to replace recursion with iteration. A tail-recursive function can be compiled to an iterative loop where the recursive call becomes a jump back to the start and the parameters are held in registers which are updated with new values each time around the loop. See Iteration, Tail recursion optimisation. CONVERT 1. String processing language, combined the pattern matching and transformation operations of COMIT with the recursive data structures of Lisp. "Convert", A. Guzman et al, CACM 98:604-615 Aug 1966. 2. Early language to convert programs and data from one language to another. "CONVERT Manual", OLI Systems Inc Oct 1976. convert. f90 A Fortran77 to Fortran90 translator by Michael Metcalf
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