[DGD] Re: A trivial query about the behaviour of local variables

[Robert Forshaw]

Thanks for the feedback.

>Remember that as the execution thread winds through your code, it might 
>return to this function many times -- most obviously in the case of plain 
>recursion -- and many copies of 'i' must be stored, each one unique for 
>each level of recursion.

I think this says it all. My concern was, as Daniel put it, "if anything, 
you are just saving the allocation space itself, and the time taken to 
allocate/deallocate." Of course the saved time would be insignificant in 
almost any circumstance, and complications would arise when calling a 
function recursively. I'll check out the references mentioned.

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