> Loops are a foundational operation. Instead of a loop you could use a function/operator overload, which would just call another function which contains the lo

> Loops are a foundational operation. Instead of a loop you could use a function/operator overload, which would just call another function which contains the loop That's incorrect, you can always replace a loop with a recursive function (e.g. as you do in Erlang where there aren't explicit loops)